METHOD AND SYSTEM TO SECURE THE DISPLAY OF ADVERTISEMENTS ON WEB BROWSERS

• US 20090158140A1
• Filed: 12/01/2008
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Picon, Joaquin, Marmigere, Gerard, Bauchot, Frederic, Loupia, David
• Granted Patent: US 8,935,609 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A method and system to secure the display of advertisements on web browsers. A method according to an embodiment includes: interpreting a markup file in a virtual machine, converting displayable elements of the markup file to one or a plurality of images and constructing a modified markup file comprising the at least one image file and a scripting language code adapted to cause a user terminal upon which it is executed to transmit coordinate information defining the position of a user-controlled cursor and action information defining a clicking action.

Claims

1. A method of handling an interpreted markup file, comprising:

receiving a markup file and interpreting the markup file in a virtual machine, the markup file comprising a set of displayable elements; and

converting the set of displayable elements of the markup file interpreted in the virtual machine to an image.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

altering the image by distorting, greyscaling, re-encoding, resizing, noising, discretizing, resampling or scrambling.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

dividing the image into a plurality of sub-images.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

altering one of the plurality of sub-images by distorting, greyscaling, re-encoding, resizing, noising, discretizing, resampling or scrambling.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

constructing a modified markup file containing the image and a scripting language code adapted to cause a user terminal upon which it is executed to transmit coordinate information defining a position of a user-controlled cursor.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

constructing a modified markup file containing the plurality of sub-images and a scripting language code adapted to cause a user terminal upon which it is executed to transmit coordinate information defining a position of a user-controlled cursor.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the scripting language code is further adapted to cause a user terminal upon which it is executed to transmit the coordinate information continuously or on a periodic basis.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein the scripting language code is further adapted to cause a user terminal upon which it is executed to transmit the coordinate information continuously or on a periodic basis.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the scripting language code is further adapted to cause a user terminal upon which it is executed to transmit action information defining a clicking action of a user-controlled cursor.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the scripting language code is further adapted to cause a user terminal upon which it is executed to transmit action information defining a clicking action of a user-controlled cursor.

11. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

interpreting the modified markup file.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the markup file is an HTML or XML file.

13. A computer program stored on a computer readable medium, which when executed, handles an interpreted markup file, the computer program comprising instructions for:

receiving a markup file and interpreting the markup file in a virtual machine, the markup file comprising a set of displayable elements; and

converting the set of displayable elements of the markup file interpreted in the virtual machine to an image.

14. A system for handling an interpreted markup file, comprising:

a system for receiving a markup file and interpreting the markup file in a virtual machine, the markup file comprising a set of displayable elements; and

a system for converting the set of displayable elements of the markup file interpreted in the virtual machine to an image.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising:

a system for altering the image by distorting, greyscaling, re-encoding, resizing, noising, discretizing, resampling or scrambling.

16. The system of claim 14, further comprising:

a system for dividing the image into a plurality of sub-images.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising:

a system for altering one of the plurality of sub-images by distorting, greyscaling, re-encoding, resizing, noising, discretizing, resampling or scrambling.

18. The system of claim 14, further comprising:

a system for constructing a modified markup file containing the image and a scripting language code adapted to cause a user terminal upon which it is executed to transmit coordinate information defining a position of a user-controlled cursor.

19. The system of claim 16, further comprising:

a system for constructing a modified markup file containing the plurality of sub-images and a scripting language code adapted to cause a user terminal upon which it is executed to transmit coordinate information defining a position of a user-controlled cursor.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the scripting language code is further adapted to cause a user terminal upon which it is executed to transmit the coordinate information continuously or on a periodic basis.

21. The system of claim 19 wherein the scripting language code is further adapted to cause a user terminal upon which it is executed to transmit the coordinate information continuously or on a periodic basis.

22. The system of claim 20, wherein the scripting language code is further adapted to cause a user terminal upon which it is executed to transmit action information defining a clicking action of a user-controlled cursor.

23. The system of claim 21, wherein the scripting language code is further adapted to cause a user terminal upon which it is executed to transmit action information defining a clicking action of a user-controlled cursor.