公开(公告)号：US20050198162A1

公开(公告)日：2005-09-08

申请号：US10932827

申请日：2004-09-02

申请人： Kirk Bauer ,  James Dooley ,  Nickolas Achille Downey ,  Richard Hargett ,  Jeffrey Jones ,  William Thomasson ,  Stephen Wong

发明人： Kirk Bauer ,  James Dooley ,  Nickolas Achille Downey ,  Richard Hargett ,  Jeffrey Jones ,  William Thomasson ,  Stephen Wong

IPC分类号： G06F17/30 ,  G06F15/16

CPC分类号： G06F16/954 ,  G06F2216/15

摘要： A dynamic collaborative-browsing system enables client programs connected to a computer network to join and leave groups or sessions, to collaboratively browse together as a session, to communicate with other client programs in the session. Each client program in the session may act as a session leader, or may just follow a session leader as it browses network sites of the computer network. The system includes client programs, typically executing on client computers and server software, typically executing on one or more main servers. Network servers, such as Web servers, host a number of network sites each having a location or uniform resource locator (URL). The main server groups into server-defined cells. One or more client programs interact with the server software to cause the server to create a session, to cause the client program to connect to a network site, to notify the server software of the network site's location or URL, and to notify other client programs in the session of the network site's location or URL so that other client programs in the session become connected to the same network site. The server software facilitates the formation of client programs into sessions and allows the client programs to communicate, to connect to and view a same network site, and to perform other collaborative activities. The server software also groups sessions currently connected to network sites in a same cell, and notifies each session and the client programs of the sessions of all of the other sessions and client programs in the same cell. The server software also facilitates communication between the sessions and client programs connected to network sites in the same cell.

摘要翻译： 动态协同浏览系统使得连接到计算机网络的客户端程序能够加入和离开组或会话，以协同方式一起作为会话一起浏览，以便与会话中的其他客户端程序进行通信。 会话中的每个客户端程序可以充当会话引导者，或者可以在浏览计算机网络的网络站点时跟随会话引导者。 该系统包括通常在客户端计算机和服务器软件上执行的客户端程序，通常在一个或多个主服务器上执行。 诸如Web服务器之类的网络服务器托管大量具有位置或统一资源定位符（URL）的网络站点。 主服务器组成服务器定义的单元。 一个或多个客户端程序与服务器软件交互，使服务器创建会话，使客户端程序连接到网站，通知服务器软件网站的位置或URL，并通知其他客户端程序 在网站的位置或URL的会话中，使会话中的其他客户端程序连接到同一个网站。 服务器软件有助于将客户端程序形成会话，并允许客户端程序进行通信，连接和查看同一个网站，并执行其他协作活动。 服务器软件还将当前连接到同一小区中的网络站点的会话分组，并将同一小区中的所有其他会话和客户端程序的会话通知给每个会话和客户端程序。 服务器软件还有助于会话与连接到同一小区中网络站点的客户端程序之间的通信。