Multi-Windowed Online Application Environment

• US 20080065723A1
• Filed: 09/17/2007
• Published: 03/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AOL LLC (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Corboy, David, Marshall, John
• Granted Patent: US 7,552,172 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data to a user of a communications system by establishing a connection between a client and a host; receiving electronic data from the host in response to a data request transmitted from the client; and at the client, simultaneously executing multiple instantiations of the browser application in response to the electronic data received from the host. The client includes a browser application configured to render data encapsulated in a standard Internet content format. Each instantiation of the browser application is configured to exchange messages with at least one other instantiation of the browser application.

Claims

1. A communications method for transferring electronic data to users of a communications system, the method comprising:

establishing a connection between a client and a host, the client including a browser application configured to render data written in Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML);

receiving electronic data from the host in response to a data request transmitted from the client;

at the client, executing a first opening of the browser application in response to the electronic data received from the host by launching the browser application a first time; and

at the client, executing a second opening of the browser application by launching the browser application a second time,

wherein the first opening of the browser application is configured to directly exchange messages with the second opening of the browser application at the client system, and

wherein each of the first and second openings of the browser application is configured to render data written in HTML.