US 6,983,307 B2
Synchronization among plural browsers
Inderpal Singh Mumick, Berkeley Heights, N.J. (US); and Sandeep Sibal, Scotch Plains, N.J. (US)
Assigned to Kirusa, Inc., Edison, N.J. (US)
Filed on Jul. 01, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/187,486.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/304499, filed on Jul. 11, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2003/0046346 A1, Mar. 06, 2003
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 709—205 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of using a first browser to navigate through a collection of data and to facilitate the synchronization of a second browser to a state of the first browser, a one of the first and second browsers being a visual browser and the other of the first and second browsers being a voice browser, the method comprising the acts of:
performing, with the first browser, a navigation through the collection of data in accordance with instructions received from a user;
capturing information indicative of a state of the first browser including a position of the first browser with respect to the collection of data;
sending said information to the second browser, whereby the second browser recreates the state of the first browser based on said information and continues said navigation from said position.