Michael A Pon

US Patent:

6947979, Sep 20, 2005

Filed:

Aug 16, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/640960

Inventors:

Michael Pon - Cupertino CA, US

Assignee:

Entrust, Inc. - Plano TX

International Classification:

G06F015/173

US Classification:

709223, 715715, 715733, 715738

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for controlling use of a network resource. A network administrator accesses and navigates one or more network resources. A navigation capture server captures each request that is generated by the administrator's browser and each response that is received, and stores information about the requests and responses. The navigation capture server analyzes the captured information and generates an access/navigation script that represents the navigation actions taken by the administrator in the session. The script is edited and generalized in a manner such that upon playback of the script, the user may input actual useful information and the system may capture specific response data. When the client accesses and navigates the Web applications, context-specific information, relating to the client's then-current request, is passed from the User View Server to the navigation capture server. The navigation capture server merges the context-specific information into a corresponding request of the access/navigation script, and communicates a modified, context-specific request to the network resource.