METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODIFYING HOST APPLICATION FUNCTIONALITY BASED UPON DOWNLOADED CONTENT
First Claim
1. A computer implemented method comprising:
- an application accessing and hosting a browser control, which is independent of the application, and that is capable of accessing documents remotely stored from the application;
the application using the browser control to access a remotely stored document and to render content from the remotely stored document to a user, wherein the browser control parses the document and searches the document for a particular identifier and wherein the method further includes the application registering with the browser control for the notification of an occurrence of the particular identifier within the document;
the application receiving a notification from the browser control that the particular identifier is found within the document; and
wherein upon receiving the notification, the application automatically alters a default functionality of the application.
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Abstract
An application hosting a browser modifies its own functionality in some manner based on whether particular content (e.g., an identifier) is present in a document for rendering by the browser. In one embodiment, a financial statement page for rendering via the hosted browser is scanned to determine if an identifier corresponding to a download button is present. If present, the host application provides an alternate download button that does not scroll off the screen as the page is scrolled. The present invention also suppresses a dialog box (e.g., the open/save dialog box) when a request for a certain file type is made by a hosted browser. For example, a request for download of financial information suppresses the open/save dialog box, and automatically opens the downloaded file.
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1. A computer implemented method comprising:
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an application accessing and hosting a browser control, which is independent of the application, and that is capable of accessing documents remotely stored from the application;
the application using the browser control to access a remotely stored document and to render content from the remotely stored document to a user, wherein the browser control parses the document and searches the document for a particular identifier and wherein the method further includes the application registering with the browser control for the notification of an occurrence of the particular identifier within the document;
the application receiving a notification from the browser control that the particular identifier is found within the document; and
wherein upon receiving the notification, the application automatically alters a default functionality of the application. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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