BROWSER STORE ADMINISTERING METHOD AND SYSTEM

摘要

Methods and systems for administering a browser store for computing device web browser applications, particularly browsers featuring tabbed viewing of web pages. A qualifying trigger event, such as a change in the current active tab of the browser, or a navigation to a URL in the active tab, is detected by an exemplary system. The system, having been monitoring user interaction with the browser's tabs, regulates the browser store such that, upon detecting a trigger event, only data (e.g., cookies) pertaining to the web site whose web page is presently displayed in the browser's active tab is retained. Any other data unrelated to the web site is copied to a virtual memory for future reference and purged from the browser store. Additionally, any data pertaining to the web site that may have been previously transferred to the virtual memory is retrieved therefrom and relocated to the browser store. Moreover, any such data retrieved from the virtual memory that require updating, e.g., upon request or instruction by the site's web server, is updated or replaced as appropriate.

主权项

1. A method for administering a browser store for a web browser application on a computing device, wherein multiple web sites are accessible via individual tabs of the browser application, and in which the browser store is reserved exclusively for retaining data pertaining to a web site whose associated web page is presently displayed in the browser application's active tab, the method comprising:
monitoring, using at least one data processor of the computing device, activity within the browser application; detecting, using the at least one data processor, at least one event in the browser application indicative of a need to regulate the browser store; identifying, using the at least one data processor, the web site whose web page is presently displayed in the browser application's active tab; purging, using the at least one data processor, data in the browser store unrelated to the web site whose web page is presently displayed in the active tab; and retrieving from a virtual memory on the computing device and relocating to the browser store, using the at least one data processor, data pertaining to the web site whose web page is presently displayed in the active tab.