Highlighting world wide documents of special interest in a displayed session history list of web documents received during a web access session at a receiving web display station

摘要

A World Wide Web (Web) user is enabled to readily distinguish received hypertext documents of special in-terest from other received hypertext documents when he is backtracking through a sequence of documents received at a receiving display station during a particular browsing session. The user is enabled to designate a received hypertext document to be of special interest in an imple-mentation for tracking all hypertext documents received at said receiving display station. The user may inter-actively display a session history list of all tracked hypertext documents received at said receiving display station during a Web access session together with indica-tions on the displayed history list of the documents designated to be of special interest. The indicating implementation may highlight the documents of special interest, e.g. by using a different color for the documents of interest. The procedure is particularly effective in systems, which in the interest of simplicity and brevity, identify the listed Web documents in the session history list by only the higher level domains in the listed Web documents' addresses. In such history lists, one or more domain levels are left out of each listed received docu-ment's address to thereby render the listed documents in-distinguishable from each other. With the present inven-tion, the user has the benefit of highlighting to distin-guish the Web documents of interest which might otherwise be indistinguishable from the session history list alone. IMAGE