Control Services for the HTTP Session Mobility Service

In our previous work, a hybrid architectural scheme was proposed to migrate Web sessions between PCs. Only the client-side of the work was however achieved. The work included developing a Web browser extension and creating a new service, namely content sharing and session handoff. This further research explores the proxy-side of the architecture. It entails creating new services that prevent abuse of the services offered by the client. That is, the new services in the proxy control the interaction between the Web browsers. The services are provided to further improve the Web-browsing experience and are derived from existing telecommunication services, such as call transfer and call blocking. Although the services call transfer and call blocking are peculiar to telecommunications, they are feasible in the Web-browsing context owing to identities in Web browsers, which could make them interact with one another like phones. Our approach uses the best of the Internet protocols (SIP, XML, HTTP) to provide a controllable HTTP session mobility service between two or more Web browsers.