System and method for modifying electronic documents transmitted through an intermediary

• US 10,204,363 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2017
• Issued: 02/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fintegraph, LLC (Ascend Innovation Management, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Tamiras Per Pte Ltd LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Rollins, Eugene J., Padala, Sailendra, Hendrikse, Norbert
• Primary Examiner(s): Zimmerman, Matthew E
• Application Number:
  US15/612,380
• Publication Number:
  US 20170270576A1
• Time in Patent Office: 620 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/02 involving a neutral party, e.g. certification authority, notary or trusted third party [TTP]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames name-to-address mapping H04L61/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/35 involving non-standard use of addresses for implementing network functionalities, e.g. coding subscription information within the address or functional addressing, i.e. assigning an address to a function
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/561 Adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

Communications between participants over a communications link are proxied by an intermediary, such as an Integrated Order Mechanism (IOM). Participants interact with each other through the IOM. The IOM may be transparent to the participants such that they are not aware that the IOM is involved in processing communications. For example, in the context of a transaction by a customer making a purchase from a merchant over the Internet, the IOM facilitates the processing of transactions by processing requests from both the customer and the merchant. Neither the customer nor the merchant may be aware that the transactions are being handled by the IOM. Navigation objects may be provided for the communications over a network. For example, a navigation bar may be included on a merchant web page to provide the customer with a link back to a shopping application provided by the IOM.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a processing device from a client device, a selection of an unproxied link corresponding to a web page;

modifying, by the processing device, the unproxied link to generate a proxied link by adding an address corresponding to the processing device to the unproxied link;

wherein modifying, by the processing device, the unproxied link to generate a proxied link includes modifying the web page by adding an object to the web page, the object including a hyperlink to return to the processing device;

transmitting, by the processing device to a server device, the proxied link requesting the web page;

receiving, by the processing device from the server device, the web page based at least in part on the proxied link; and

transmitting, by the processing device, the modified web page to the client device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the web page is associated with a shopping application.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the object further includes a graphical image or an audio file, or any combination thereof.

4. An apparatus, comprising:

a memory device configured to store instructions associated with an application program; and

a processing device that, in response to executing the instructions stored in the memory device, is configured to;

receive from a client device, a selection of an unproxied link corresponding to a web page;

modify the unproxied link to generate a proxied link by adding an address corresponding to the processing device to the unproxied link, wherein modify the unproxied link to generate a proxied link includes modify the web page by adding a object to the web page, the object including a hyperlink to return to the processing device;

transmit to a server device, the proxied link requesting the web page;

receive from the server device, the web page based at least in part on the proxied link; and

transmit to the client device, the modified web page.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the web page is associated with a shopping application.

6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the object further includes a graphical image or an audio file, or any combination thereof.

7. A computer-readable memory device and a processing device, the computer-readable memory device having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving from a client device, a selection of an unproxied link corresponding to a web page;

modifying the unproxied link to generate a proxied link by adding an address corresponding to the processing device to the unproxied link;

wherein modifying the unproxied link to generate a proxied link includes modifying the web page by adding an object to the web page, the object including a hyperlink to return to the processing device;

transmitting to a server device, the proxied link requesting the web page;

receiving from the server device, the web page based at least in part on the proxied link; and

transmitting to the client device, the modified web page.

8. The computer-readable memory device of claim 7, wherein:

the web page is associated with a shopping application.

9. The computer-readable memory device of claim 7, wherein the object further includes a graphical image or an audio file, or any combination thereof.