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- the present invention relates to browser activity replay, and more specifically, to multi-window, multi-tab browser activity replay.
- a method for browser activity replay with advanced navigation includes receiving, by a computer processor, activities conducted by a user via browser application at a website. The activities occur across multiple web pages and span multiple windows during a single browsing session. The method also includes associating the activities with corresponding web pages, ordering the activities in chronological order for each of the web pages, and displaying, via a browser based interface, user interface events corresponding to the ordered activities. The user interface events are selectable by an end user of the browser based interface.
- FIG. 1 depicts a block diagram of a system upon which browser activity replay processes may be implemented according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 2 depicts an architecture that may be used in implementing browser activity replay processes according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 3 depicts a flow diagram of a process for implementing browser activity replay with advanced navigation according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 4 depicts a user interface including an unordered navigation list in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 5 depicts a user interface including an ordered navigation list in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- Exemplary embodiments are directed to browser activity replay with advanced navigation.
- the browser activity replay processes enable multi-window, multi-tab browser activity replay of end users of corresponding browser sessions at a website. Views are shown as layered popup windows. By providing the views as layered popups, users can better correlate to the original experience of the website.
- the system 100 of FIG. 1 includes a host system server 102 , a client server 104 , and a user system 106 , each of which is communicatively coupled to one or more networks 108 .
- the networks 108 may be any type of network or combination of networks known in the art.
- the host system server 102 and client server 104 may be implemented, e.g., via any high-speed computer processing device capable of performing a high volume of activities as described herein.
- the host system server 102 executes one or more applications for implementing the browser activity replay processes described herein.
- the host system server 102 may perform these processes as a service to one or more client enterprises, e.g., client server 104 .
- the host system server 102 is communicatively coupled to a storage device 112 for storing user activities conducted at client server websites.
- the user system 106 may be a general purpose computer or desktop computer, mobile device, or other type of processing device.
- the user system 106 executes a browser application 110 for accessing one or more websites (e.g., a website of the client server 104 ) and performing various activities therefrom.
- the architecture 200 includes a network 202 through which user activities conducted by user systems are captured.
- data may be captured through a network 202 via a passive capture application and is distributed to a storage device 206 via a session pipeline 204 .
- the session indicates a browser session conducted between a user system and a client server's website.
- the captured data is stored in the storage device 206 .
- the network 202 may correlate the network 108 of FIG. 1 .
- the storage device 206 may correlate to the storage device 112 of FIG. 1 .
- a replay server 208 (which may correlate to one or both of the client server 104 and the host system server 102 ) renders different views or pages for a given browsing session via a browser based replay application 210 , as will be described further herein.
- FIG. 3 a flow diagram describing a process for implementing browser activity replay with advanced navigation will now be described in an embodiment.
- activities conducted by a user e.g., user system 106
- a web browser application e.g., browser 110
- the user activities may be collected on the client side (user system) via, e.g., Javascript Libraries.
- Each interaction message contains the client-side timestamp of when the interaction occurred.
- Client messages may also include Load and Unload of page events, which act as markers of when a window or page was created or removed.
- the client may send data as a batch containing many messages from the same web page.
- the user activities may occur across multiple web pages and span multiple tabs and/or windows during a single browsing session of the user.
- the activities include scrolling through a web page, selecting a tab, selecting a link on the web page, advancing to a different web page, returning to a previous web page, logging in to a web site, logging out of a web site, entering data into a form, and creating a message, to name a few.
- Receiving the activities includes receiving messages including timestamps indicating when each of the activities occurred.
- the activities are associated with their corresponding web pages. This may be implemented by assigning an identifier to the activities that indicates their association with the corresponding web page.
- the activities are ordered in chronological order (e.g., via their timestamps) for each of the web pages.
- user interface events corresponding to the ordered activities are displayed via a browser based interface.
- the displaying of the user events includes displaying the load and unload events in chronological order of occurrence.
- the load and unload events indicate loading and unloading of the web pages by the end user.
- the events are selectable by a user of the browser based interface.
- Sample interface screens are shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 .
- the browser based interface Upon receiving a selected user interface event, the browser based interface determines a number of windows that are active at the time the activities were captured. This determination may be implemented by traversing upward in the navigation list and identifying all load messages that do not have matching unload messages.
- the display process may be implemented by creating hypertext markup language (HTML) popup windows with iframes pointing to a most recent replay of each active window, and overlaying the popup windows on top of each other with an ordered index of the popup windows, to indicate most recent activities on each active window.
- HTML hypertext markup language
- the display process may be implemented by displaying active windows as tabs. Upon selection of one of the corresponding entries in the navigation list, a replay of a corresponding window is displayed.
- FIG. 4 illustrates a user interface including an unordered navigation list
- FIG. 5 depicts a user interface including an ordered navigation list.
- the present invention may be a system, a method, and/or a computer program product at any possible technical detail level of integration
- the computer program product may include a computer readable storage medium (or media) having computer readable program instructions thereon for causing a processor to carry out aspects of the present invention
- the computer readable storage medium can be a tangible device that can retain and store instructions for use by an instruction execution device.
- the computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but is not limited to, an electronic storage device, a magnetic storage device, an optical storage device, an electromagnetic storage device, a semiconductor storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.
- a non-exhaustive list of more specific examples of the computer readable storage medium includes the following: a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory), a static random access memory (SRAM), a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), a digital versatile disk (DVD), a memory stick, a floppy disk, a mechanically encoded device such as punch-cards or raised structures in a groove having instructions recorded thereon, and any suitable combination of the foregoing.
- RAM random access memory
- ROM read-only memory
- EPROM or Flash memory erasable programmable read-only memory
- SRAM static random access memory
- CD-ROM compact disc read-only memory
- DVD digital versatile disk
- memory stick a floppy disk
- a mechanically encoded device such as punch-cards or raised structures in a groove having instructions recorded thereon
- a computer readable storage medium is not to be construed as being transitory signals per se, such as radio waves or other freely propagating electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic waves propagating through a waveguide or other transmission media (e.g., light pulses passing through a fiber-optic cable), or electrical signals transmitted through a wire.
- Computer readable program instructions described herein can be downloaded to respective computing/processing devices from a computer readable storage medium or to an external computer or external storage device via a network, for example, the Internet, a local area network, a wide area network and/or a wireless network.
- the network may comprise copper transmission cables, optical transmission fibers, wireless transmission, routers, firewalls, switches, gateway computers and/or edge servers.
- a network adapter card or network interface in each computing/processing device receives computer readable program instructions from the network and forwards the computer readable program instructions for storage in a computer readable storage medium within the respective computing/processing device.
- Computer readable program instructions for carrying out operations of the present invention may be assembler instructions, instruction-set-architecture (ISA) instructions, machine instructions, machine dependent instructions, microcode, firmware instructions, state-setting data, configuration data for integrated circuitry, or either source code or object code written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Smalltalk, C++, or the like, and procedural programming languages, such as the “C” programming language or similar programming languages.
- the computer readable program instructions may execute entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server.
- the remote computer may be connected to the user's computer through any type of network, including a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), or the connection may be made to an external computer (for example, through the Internet using an Internet Service Provider).
- electronic circuitry including, for example, programmable logic circuitry, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), or programmable logic arrays (PLA) may execute the computer readable program instructions by utilizing state information of the computer readable program instructions to personalize the electronic circuitry, in order to perform aspects of the present invention.
- These computer readable program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
- These computer readable program instructions may also be stored in a computer readable storage medium that can direct a computer, a programmable data processing apparatus, and/or other devices to function in a particular manner, such that the computer readable storage medium having instructions stored therein comprises an article of manufacture including instructions which implement aspects of the function/act specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
- the computer readable program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer, other programmable data processing apparatus, or other device to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer, other programmable apparatus or other device to produce a computer implemented process, such that the instructions which execute on the computer, other programmable apparatus, or other device implement the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
- each block in the flowchart or block diagrams may represent a module, segment, or portion of instructions, which comprises one or more executable instructions for implementing the specified logical function(s).
- the functions noted in the blocks may occur out of the order noted in the Figures.
- two blocks shown in succession may, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved.
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- The present invention relates to browser activity replay, and more specifically, to multi-window, multi-tab browser activity replay.
- According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for browser activity replay with advanced navigation is provided. The method includes receiving, by a computer processor, activities conducted by a user via browser application at a website. The activities occur across multiple web pages and span multiple windows during a single browsing session. The method also includes associating the activities with corresponding web pages, ordering the activities in chronological order for each of the web pages, and displaying, via a browser based interface, user interface events corresponding to the ordered activities. The user interface events are selectable by an end user of the browser based interface.
- Additional features and advantages are realized through the techniques of the present invention. Other embodiments and aspects of the invention are described in detail herein and are considered a part of the claimed invention. For a better understanding of the invention with the advantages and the features, refer to the description and to the drawings.
- The subject matter which is regarded as the invention is particularly pointed out and distinctly claimed in the claims at the conclusion of the specification. The forgoing and other features, and advantages of the invention are apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
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FIG. 1 depicts a block diagram of a system upon which browser activity replay processes may be implemented according to an embodiment of the present invention; -
FIG. 2 depicts an architecture that may be used in implementing browser activity replay processes according to an embodiment of the present invention; -
FIG. 3 depicts a flow diagram of a process for implementing browser activity replay with advanced navigation according to an embodiment of the present invention; -
FIG. 4 depicts a user interface including an unordered navigation list in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention; and -
FIG. 5 depicts a user interface including an ordered navigation list in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. - In a replay mode of a recorded web interaction, one might expect to see the complete user interaction on their website or mobile application. Web 1.0 style applications which contain popup windows or web applications that allow users to open multiple tabs demand a holistic experience of multiple window replay. In some cases, interactions in one window reflect interactions in parent windows or windows from the same website. It is possible that interactions in child windows can change the data in a parent window. In a sequential single window replay, one would miss the flow of user interaction.
- Exemplary embodiments are directed to browser activity replay with advanced navigation. The browser activity replay processes enable multi-window, multi-tab browser activity replay of end users of corresponding browser sessions at a website. Views are shown as layered popup windows. By providing the views as layered popups, users can better correlate to the original experience of the website.
- Turning now to
FIG. 1 , a block diagram of a system for implementing browser activity replay processes will now be described. Thesystem 100 ofFIG. 1 includes ahost system server 102, aclient server 104, and auser system 106, each of which is communicatively coupled to one ormore networks 108. Thenetworks 108 may be any type of network or combination of networks known in the art. - The
host system server 102 andclient server 104 may be implemented, e.g., via any high-speed computer processing device capable of performing a high volume of activities as described herein. In an embodiment, thehost system server 102 executes one or more applications for implementing the browser activity replay processes described herein. Thehost system server 102 may perform these processes as a service to one or more client enterprises, e.g.,client server 104. Thehost system server 102 is communicatively coupled to astorage device 112 for storing user activities conducted at client server websites. - The
user system 106 may be a general purpose computer or desktop computer, mobile device, or other type of processing device. Theuser system 106 executes abrowser application 110 for accessing one or more websites (e.g., a website of the client server 104) and performing various activities therefrom. - Turning now to
FIG. 2 , a diagram depicting an architecture that may be used in implementing browser activity replay processes will now be described in an embodiment. Thearchitecture 200 includes anetwork 202 through which user activities conducted by user systems are captured. As shown inFIG. 2 , data may be captured through anetwork 202 via a passive capture application and is distributed to astorage device 206 via asession pipeline 204. The session indicates a browser session conducted between a user system and a client server's website. The captured data is stored in thestorage device 206. In an embodiment, thenetwork 202 may correlate thenetwork 108 ofFIG. 1 . In addition, thestorage device 206 may correlate to thestorage device 112 ofFIG. 1 . - A replay server 208 (which may correlate to one or both of the
client server 104 and the host system server 102) renders different views or pages for a given browsing session via a browser basedreplay application 210, as will be described further herein. - Turning now to
FIG. 3 , a flow diagram describing a process for implementing browser activity replay with advanced navigation will now be described in an embodiment. Atblock 302, activities conducted by a user (e.g., user system 106) via a web browser application (e.g., browser 110) are received. The user activities may be collected on the client side (user system) via, e.g., Javascript Libraries. Each interaction message contains the client-side timestamp of when the interaction occurred. Client messages may also include Load and Unload of page events, which act as markers of when a window or page was created or removed. The client may send data as a batch containing many messages from the same web page. - The user activities may occur across multiple web pages and span multiple tabs and/or windows during a single browsing session of the user. The activities include scrolling through a web page, selecting a tab, selecting a link on the web page, advancing to a different web page, returning to a previous web page, logging in to a web site, logging out of a web site, entering data into a form, and creating a message, to name a few.
- Receiving the activities includes receiving messages including timestamps indicating when each of the activities occurred.
- At
block 304, the activities are associated with their corresponding web pages. This may be implemented by assigning an identifier to the activities that indicates their association with the corresponding web page. Atblock 306, the activities are ordered in chronological order (e.g., via their timestamps) for each of the web pages. - At
block 308, user interface events corresponding to the ordered activities are displayed via a browser based interface. The displaying of the user events includes displaying the load and unload events in chronological order of occurrence. The load and unload events indicate loading and unloading of the web pages by the end user. - The events are selectable by a user of the browser based interface. Sample interface screens are shown in
FIGS. 4 and 5 . - Upon receiving a selected user interface event, the browser based interface determines a number of windows that are active at the time the activities were captured. This determination may be implemented by traversing upward in the navigation list and identifying all load messages that do not have matching unload messages.
- The display process may be implemented by creating hypertext markup language (HTML) popup windows with iframes pointing to a most recent replay of each active window, and overlaying the popup windows on top of each other with an ordered index of the popup windows, to indicate most recent activities on each active window. Alternatively, the display process may be implemented by displaying active windows as tabs. Upon selection of one of the corresponding entries in the navigation list, a replay of a corresponding window is displayed.
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FIG. 4 illustrates a user interface including an unordered navigation list, andFIG. 5 depicts a user interface including an ordered navigation list. - The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used herein, the singular forms “a”, “an” and “the” are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms “comprises” and/or “comprising,” when used in this specification, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.
- The corresponding structures, materials, acts, and equivalents of all means or step plus function elements in the claims below are intended to include any structure, material, or act for performing the function in combination with other claimed elements as specifically claimed. The description of the present invention has been presented for purposes of illustration and description, but is not intended to be exhaustive or limited to the invention in the form disclosed. Many modifications and variations will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and the practical application, and to enable others of ordinary skill in the art to understand the invention for various embodiments with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated.
- The present invention may be a system, a method, and/or a computer program product at any possible technical detail level of integration. The computer program product may include a computer readable storage medium (or media) having computer readable program instructions thereon for causing a processor to carry out aspects of the present invention.
- The computer readable storage medium can be a tangible device that can retain and store instructions for use by an instruction execution device. The computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but is not limited to, an electronic storage device, a magnetic storage device, an optical storage device, an electromagnetic storage device, a semiconductor storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. A non-exhaustive list of more specific examples of the computer readable storage medium includes the following: a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory), a static random access memory (SRAM), a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), a digital versatile disk (DVD), a memory stick, a floppy disk, a mechanically encoded device such as punch-cards or raised structures in a groove having instructions recorded thereon, and any suitable combination of the foregoing. A computer readable storage medium, as used herein, is not to be construed as being transitory signals per se, such as radio waves or other freely propagating electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic waves propagating through a waveguide or other transmission media (e.g., light pulses passing through a fiber-optic cable), or electrical signals transmitted through a wire.
- Computer readable program instructions described herein can be downloaded to respective computing/processing devices from a computer readable storage medium or to an external computer or external storage device via a network, for example, the Internet, a local area network, a wide area network and/or a wireless network. The network may comprise copper transmission cables, optical transmission fibers, wireless transmission, routers, firewalls, switches, gateway computers and/or edge servers. A network adapter card or network interface in each computing/processing device receives computer readable program instructions from the network and forwards the computer readable program instructions for storage in a computer readable storage medium within the respective computing/processing device.
- Computer readable program instructions for carrying out operations of the present invention may be assembler instructions, instruction-set-architecture (ISA) instructions, machine instructions, machine dependent instructions, microcode, firmware instructions, state-setting data, configuration data for integrated circuitry, or either source code or object code written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Smalltalk, C++, or the like, and procedural programming languages, such as the “C” programming language or similar programming languages. The computer readable program instructions may execute entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the latter scenario, the remote computer may be connected to the user's computer through any type of network, including a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), or the connection may be made to an external computer (for example, through the Internet using an Internet Service Provider). In some embodiments, electronic circuitry including, for example, programmable logic circuitry, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), or programmable logic arrays (PLA) may execute the computer readable program instructions by utilizing state information of the computer readable program instructions to personalize the electronic circuitry, in order to perform aspects of the present invention.
- Aspects of the present invention are described herein with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each block of the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of blocks in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer readable program instructions.
- These computer readable program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks. These computer readable program instructions may also be stored in a computer readable storage medium that can direct a computer, a programmable data processing apparatus, and/or other devices to function in a particular manner, such that the computer readable storage medium having instructions stored therein comprises an article of manufacture including instructions which implement aspects of the function/act specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
- The computer readable program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer, other programmable data processing apparatus, or other device to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer, other programmable apparatus or other device to produce a computer implemented process, such that the instructions which execute on the computer, other programmable apparatus, or other device implement the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
- The flowchart and block diagrams in the Figures illustrate the architecture, functionality, and operation of possible implementations of systems, methods, and computer program products according to various embodiments of the present invention. In this regard, each block in the flowchart or block diagrams may represent a module, segment, or portion of instructions, which comprises one or more executable instructions for implementing the specified logical function(s). In some alternative implementations, the functions noted in the blocks may occur out of the order noted in the Figures. For example, two blocks shown in succession may, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved. It will also be noted that each block of the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, and combinations of blocks in the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, can be implemented by special purpose hardware-based systems that perform the specified functions or acts or carry out combinations of special purpose hardware and computer instructions.
- The descriptions of the various embodiments of the present invention have been presented for purposes of illustration, but are not intended to be exhaustive or limited to the embodiments disclosed. Many modifications and variations will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the described embodiments. The terminology used herein was chosen to best explain the principles of the embodiments, the practical application or technical improvement over technologies found in the marketplace, or to enable others of ordinary skill in the art to understand the embodiments disclosed herein.
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