Browser and plural active URL manager for network computers

Patent 6049812 Issued on April 11, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date:

November 18, 2016. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 751830 filed on 11/18/1996

US Classes:

715/516, Matching application process to displayed data type707/10, Distributed or remote access709/203Client/server

Examiners

Primary: Feild, Joseph H.
Assistant: Huynh, Cong-Lac

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Duffield; Edward H.

International Class

G06F 013/14

Abstract

A network browser is provided with working list maintenance and creation facility which contains an indicator for each URL's listing duration level of permanence for controlling how long a URL will be kept or maintained in the working list and also includes an activity duration permanence level indicator for controlling how long the URL will be kept active. This enables the browser to maintain multiple, concurrently active URLs and thereby enable the browser to provide the functional emulation of a desktop working environment to the user.

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