System for communicating state information relating to user previous interactions with other internet web sites during an internet session

摘要

An Internet system comprising a user computer connected to the Internet; a group of related, information-containing Internet sites; and means for permitting the user computer to sequentially interact with selected ones of the group of Internet sites such that each of the selected ones of the Internet sites is provided with user-specific information regarding the user computer's prior interactions with Internet sites contained within the group during any discrete Internet session.