Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for traversing Web pages. A referring link is identified to form an identified referring link in response to receiving a request for an anchor point in a particular Web page. The referring link is stored in association with the anchor point to form a set of referring links to the anchor point on the particular Web page. At least one of the set of referring links is sent to a requesting client.

Abstract: A method and system for allowing for the secure transmission and reception of data in a processing system is disclosed. The method and system includes providing at least one crypto algorithm in a region of a system memory in the processing system; and assigning a cryptographic function of the at least one crypto algorithm to the region. A system and method in accordance with the present invention ties the encryption/decryption algorithm to specific DMA regions and the encryption key to the particular DMA transfer. This allows the system processors to offload the encryption and enable all network (and non-network) adapters to take advantage of this offload without hardware changes to the adapters.

Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for managing a bookmark folder are provided. In an embodiment of the invention, when a user accesses a Web page using an embedded link from a displayed bookmarked Web page, the user may, if so desires, replace the bookmarked Web page by simply bookmarking the accessed Web page. The replacement is done automatically. In another embodiment of the invention, when a user wants to bookmark a Web page, the URL of the Web page is compared with the URLs of all bookmarked Web pages. If the URL of one of the bookmarked Web pages is similar with the URL of the Web page to be bookmarked, the user may, again if so desires, replace the bookmarked Web page by the bookmark of the new page. Similarity may be determined by user defined rules such as subject matter or differences in URL branches.

Abstract: Visualizing and modifying the scope of the on-screen pointed, e.g. mouse controlled cursor. The user is enabled to readily modify the scope of his on-screen pointer to a scope which is optimum for any particular icon selection tasks and functions. There is provided a scope of display screen area adjacent said moving pointer within which scope said items are enabled for user selection, and an implementation for enabling a user to interactively modify the scope of said moving pointer. The scope may modified by exposing the normally hidden scope of the pointer and then using the pointer itself to modify the scope. Upon the completion of the modification, the scope may be returned to its hidden state.

Abstract: Items such as icons are modified in high icon density environments on the display screen. An implementation combines rendering a set of said items unmodifiable, and then enabling the modifying of a selected item in said set of unmodifiable items. In effect, all of the icons in the high icon density region or sector of the display screen are “frozen” so as to be unmodifiable, and then only a selected or “target” icon is made modifiable or “hot” while the other icons in the sector remain unmodifiable. The rendering of the target icon to be modifiable may involve a simple point and click cursor movement which still is not an easy task in a crowded icon environment. However, once this is accomplished, then the rest of the icon modification is simplified in that the adjacent icons remain frozen in the unmodifiable state.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for multi-threaded password management are provided. With the apparatus and method, resources may be grouped into families of resources. A family of resources is defined as a group of resources that may make use of the same password. When a user sets a new password for a family of resources, all of the passwords for each of the resources in the family are reset to this new password. That is, the multi-threaded password management apparatus and method spawns threads to reset the passwords of the other resources in the family. In this way, a single operation of resetting a password for a resource in the family may cause a plurality of passwords to be reset. Moreover, the passwords need only be reset when the earliest reset time of the resources in the family occurs. Thus, the number of passwords that must be memorized by a user is significantly reduced. Furthermore, the number of times that passwords need be reset is also reduced due to the resetting of passwords on a group level.

Abstract: A shopping cart is provided that is designed for the purchaser/user at the receiving Web station and is associated with the receiving display station in place of the prior art shopping cart systems that are associated with and designed for particular Web pages. The user may move his personal shopping cart from one Web page to another without checking out as he leaves the particular Web pages. The user may carry his load of products with his shopping cart as he moves the cart from Web page to Web page. An implementation at said receiving display station enables a user to load into said shopping cart a plurality of representations of products offered from said plurality of Web sites. The user at the receiving display station is enabled to select to buy a set of the loaded products and there is an implementation for transmitting to each of a plurality of Web sites offering the products selected to buy by said user, billing data required of said user to buy said products.

Abstract: In an interactive display interface, an implementation switching to an alternate smaller sized cursor when the original sized cursor does not have the minimum clearance between the target icon and other adjacent icons to permit a clear user selection of the target icon. A predetermined minimum clearance factor is set. As the cursor moves toward the target icon, there is a determination made as to whether the arrangement of the target icon with respect to its adjacent icons exceeds the minimum clearance factor. If not, there is an implementation for reducing the size of the cursor so that the minimum clearance factor is exceeded.

Abstract: In an interactive display interface, an implementation for setting up around each of the selectable items, e.g. icons, a perimeter zone or halo at a predetermined distance from the perimeter of the item or icon. Thus, when an icon with such a halo is approached by an on-screen pointer, e.g. cursor, there are means for moving an adjacent icon which is within this halo to a screen position beyond this predetermined distance, i.e halo. The moved adjacent icons are subsequently returned to their original positions after a set period of time or after the pointer or cursor has moved beyond the approached icon.

Abstract: In an interactive display interface, an implementation for highlighting all icons in any set of a plurality of said icons, wherein each icon in the set is within a predetermined distance of an approaching pointer or cursor. In other words, the point of the pointer or cursor may be considered to be surrounded by a circular halo with a radius of said predetermined distance. The user moves the cursor in a standard manner. However, if the icons that the moving cursor is approaching are so densely spaced that more than one, i.e. a plurality of icons come within the halo, then all of the icons within this set of the plurality of icons is highlighted to give the user a more distinct choice. The highlighting of each of said highlighted icons is ended when the pointer moves outside of said predetermined distance or halo radius. There is also an implementation for sequentially highlighting each icon in the set instead of simultaneously highlighting the set of icons.

Abstract: A method for a user interface includes selecting information from a current location and placing the information in a queue for later placement at a destination, and then selecting a destination and placing the information at the destination. Responsive to the placing of the information in the queue, and until the placing of the information at the destination, the information is displayed in the current location and an appearance of a user display pointer shows that the queue has an entry. The queue is capable of holding second information concurrent with the first information.