US 2009/0157873 A1 · Verifiable online usage monitoring

Abstract

In the present invention, observed online CPD or CE activities must be within a designated envelope of acceptable behaviour for accredited activity to be recorded in a session log for that user. When a watcher program detects one or more loss of user focus on the activity, it alerts the user and gives them a short opportunity to rectify the situation, otherwise a session timer is stopped and no further credits are added or verified to the user's session log. When a session is ended by a user or the watcher program, only the verified activity that can be accredited to CPD is itemised and catalogued cumulatively in the user's session log.

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Dependent claims

A method of monitoring and verifying online computer usage, comprising the steps of:

running a parent web application on a client machine, the parent web application being in communication with a web server;
upon receipt of a user request for an external web resource, retrieving and caching the requested web resource at the web server;
updating one or more addresses in the cached web resource so that each refers to the parent web application's domain;
displaying the updated version of the requested web resource in an embedded browser of the parent web application;
and,
monitoring the user's focus on the browser and recording in a session log usage of the requested web resource that falls within a predetermined envelope of approved usage.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Verifiable online usage monitoring

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