Coordinating in-frame content with page content in applications

• US 10,452,738 B1
• Filed: 02/20/2018
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
• Original Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
• Inventors: Rohrbough, Richard R., Hendry, Jason Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Huynh, Cong-Lac
• Application Number:
  US15/899,589
• Time in Patent Office: 609 Days
• Field of Search: 715205, 715209, 715234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

Implementations of the present disclosure are directed to coordinating content between a page and a frame embedded in the page, and include establishing an event listener with the frame, the event listener inducing the frame to provide event messages to the page in response to occurrence of respective events within the frame, receiving a first event message from the frame, the first event message reporting occurrence of a first event, requesting first content from one or more data sources, the first content corresponding to the first event, and updating the page to display the first content therein, the first content corresponding to content displayed in the frame.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for coordinating content between a page and a frame embedded in the page, the method being executed by at least one processor and comprising:

establishing, by the at least one processor, an event listener with the frame, the event listener inducing the frame to provide event messages to the page in response to occurrence of respective events within the frame;

receiving, by the at least one processor, a first event message from the frame, the first event message reporting occurrence of a first event that causes a display of initial content within the frame, the first event message indicating a context of the initial content;

in response to receiving the first event message, requesting, by the at least one processor, first content from one or more data sources, the first content being different from the initial content and corresponding to the context of the initial content displayed in the frame; and

updating, by the at least one processor, a portion of the page outside of the frame to display the first content therein.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a second event message from the frame, the second event message reporting occurrence of a second event;

requesting second content from one or more data sources, the second content corresponding to the second event; and

updating the portion of the page outside of the frame to display the second content therein, the second content corresponding to content displayed in the frame after occurrence of the second event.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein updating the portion of the page to display the second content comprises replacing the first content with the second content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein updating the portion of the page to display the first content comprises updating a document object model (DOM) of the page based on at least a portion of the first content.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more data sources comprise one or more of a database, and an advice services infrastructure (ASI).

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the page comprises a web page displayed in a web browser executed on a client device.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to one or more processors and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations for coordinating content between a page and a frame embedded in the page, the operations comprising:

establishing an event listener with the frame, the event listener inducing the frame to provide event messages to the page in response to occurrence of respective events within the frame;

receiving a first event message from the frame, the first event message reporting occurrence of a first event that causes a display of initial content within the frame, the first event message indicating a context of the initial content;

in response to receiving the first event message, requesting first content from one or more data sources, the first content being different from the initial content and corresponding to the context of the initial content displayed in the frame; and

updating a portion of the page outside of the frame to display the first content therein.

8. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein operations further comprise:

receiving a second event message from the frame, the second event message reporting occurrence of a second event;

requesting second content from one or more data sources, the second content corresponding to the second event; and

updating the portion of the page to display the second content therein, the second content corresponding to content displayed in the frame after occurrence of the second event.

9. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein updating the portion of the page to display the second content comprises replacing the first content with the second content.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein updating the portion of the page to display the first content comprises updating a document object model (DOM) of the page based on at least a portion of the first content.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein one or more data sources comprise one or more of a database, and an advice services infrastructure (ASI).

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the page comprises a web page displayed in a web browser executed on a client device.

13. A system, comprising:

one or more processors; and

a computer-readable storage device coupled to the one or more processors and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations for coordinating content between a page and a frame embedded in the page, the operations comprising;

establishing an event listener with the frame, the event listener inducing the frame to provide event messages to the page in response to occurrence of respective events within the frame;

receiving a first event message from the frame, the first event message reporting occurrence of a first event that causes a display of initial content within the frame, the first event message indicating a context of the initial content;

in response to receiving the first event message, requesting first content from one or more data sources, the first content being different from the initial content and corresponding to the context of the initial content displayed in the frame; and

updating a portion of the page outside of the frame to display the first content therein.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein operations further comprise:

receiving a second event message from the frame, the second event message reporting occurrence of a second event;

requesting second content from one or more data sources, the second content corresponding to the second event; and

updating the portion of the page to display the second content therein, the second content corresponding to content displayed in the frame after occurrence of the second event.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein updating the portion of the page to display the second content comprises replacing the first content with the second content.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein updating the portion of the page to display the first content comprises updating a document object model (DOM) of the page based on at least a portion of the first content.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein one or more data sources comprise one or more of a database, and an advice services infrastructure (ASI).

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the page comprises a web page displayed in a web browser executed on a client device.