DYNAMIC TOOLBAR FOR MARKUP LANGUAGE DOCUMENT

• US 20070073806A1
• Filed: 10/05/2006
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Juniper Networks Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Juniper Networks Incorporated
• Inventors: SRINIVAS, Sampath, TOCK, Theron
• Granted Patent: US 7,865,843 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]

Abstract

A toolbar that is provided or inserted in a markup language document so as to facilitate features or functionality provided by a server is disclosed. The toolbar is able to determine whether the toolbar should be displayed as part of the markup language page being displayed. In one embodiment the server is an intermediary server.

Claims

1-21. -21. (canceled)

22. A method for inserting a toolbar into a webpage comprising:

receiving a webpage at a server to be delivered to a client, the webpage including more than one frame;

inserting an executable script into each frame of the webpage operable to render a toolbar in each frame when executed by a client browser, the toolbar including at least one link to a resource; and

delivering the webpage including the executable script to the client.

23. A method as recited in claim 22, wherein the at least one link is a graphical link.

24. A method as recited in claim 22, wherein the executable script is an activation script.

25. A method as recited in claim 24, wherein the activation script determines whether the toolbar is rendered when the webpage is displayed at the client.

26. A method as recited in claim 24, wherein for each instance of the activation script, the activation script determines whether the toolbar is displayed in an associated frame of the webpage when the webpage is displayed by the client.

27. A method as recited in claim 24, further comprising:

determining a size of each frame in which the toolbar is to be displayed using the activation script inserted into each frame;

comparing the size of each frame to a threshold size; and

rendering the toolbar for each frame having a frame size greater than the threshold size.

28. A method as recited in claim 22, wherein the toolbar is a HTML toolbar, and wherein the executable script is provided in a script programming language.

29. A method as recited in claim 22, wherein the resource is a remote third-party resource.

30. A method as recited in claim 22, wherein the toolbar includes a plurality of links to different resources.

31. A computer readable medium including at least computer program code for inserting a toolbar into a webpage at a server, said computer readable medium comprising:

computer program code for receiving a webpage at a server to be delivered to a client, the web page including more than one frame;

computer program code for inserting an executable script into each frame of the webpage operable to render a toolbar in each frame when executed by a client browser, the toolbar including at least one link to a resource; and

computer program code for delivering the webpage including the executable script to the client.

32. A computer readable medium as recited in claim 31, wherein the executable script determines whether the toolbar is displayed in each frame when the frame is displayed at the client.