EMBEDDABLE WEB APPLICATION AGENT

• US 20100057701A1
• Filed: 08/28/2008
• Published: 03/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Legros, Xavier, Engel, Maxwell R., Simms, Justin Cody, Chambers, Wade, Jiang, Zhaowei Charlie
• Granted Patent: US 9,020,970 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: N/A
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

In one example embodiment, a code segment may be embedded in a web page by a web page publisher, and the code segment may be executed at least in part by a user computing platform. Information related to one or more web applications may be provided to the user computing platform at least in part in response to the user computing platform executing the code segment.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

providing a code segment to a web page publisher, the code segment to be embedded in a web page by the web page publisher, the code segment to be executed on a user computing platform;

receiving a request for information related to one or more web applications from the user computing platform, the user computing platform to transmit the request in response to executing the code segment; and

providing information related to the one or more web applications to the user computing platform.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said providing the code segment comprises providing code to allow a user to select from among one or more web applications.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said providing the code segment comprises providing code to allow the user to specify a look and/or feel of the executed code segment.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said providing the code segment comprises providing a code segment compliant with a Javascript specification.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said providing information related to the one or more web applications further comprises assembling information to be rendered at the user computing platform in connection with executing the code segment.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said assembling information to be rendered comprises assembling social backend information related to the one or more web applications.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the social backend information comprises one or more of a friends list, a user profile, and/or an image.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein said assembling information to be rendered at the user computing platform in connection with executing code segment comprises assembling a batch of one or more web applications associated with a specified user identification.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein said assembling the batch of one or more web applications comprises assembling a batch of one or more of a game application, a fantasy sports application, a financial application, and/or a word processing application.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a specification for the code segment, and wherein said providing the code segment comprises providing the code segment at least in part in response to said receiving the specification for the code segment.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said receiving a specification for the code segment comprises receiving a specification according to a specified application programming interface.

12. A method, comprising:

receiving a code segment from a web application developer, the web application to be executed by a user computing platform;

generating a web page comprising the code segment; and

transmitting the web page to the user computing platform, the user computing platform to request information related to the code segment from a backend information publisher in response to the user computing platform executing the code segment, the user computing platform to receive information related to the code segment from the backend information publisher.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the backend information publisher comprises the web application developer.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein said transmitting the web page to the user computing platform comprising transmitting the web page via an Internet in response to a user selecting a link pointing to the web page.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein said receiving the code segment comprises receiving code to allow a user to select from among one or more web applications.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein said receiving the code segment comprises receiving code to allow the user to specify a look and/or feel of the executed code segment.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein said receiving the code segment comprises receiving a code segment compliant with a Javascript specification.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein said information related to the one or more web applications to be requested by the user computing platform comprises information to be assembled at the backend information publisher, the assembled information to be rendered at the user computing platform in connection with executing the code segment.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein said assembled information to be rendered comprises social backend information related to the one or more web applications.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the social backend information comprises one or more of a friends list, a user profile, and/or an image.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein said assembled information to be rendered at the user computing platform in connection with executing code segment comprises a batch of one or more web applications associated with a specified user identification.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein said assembled batch of one or more web applications comprises a batch of one or more of a game application, a fantasy sports application, a financial application, and/or a word processing application.

23. The method of claim 12, further comprising transmitting a specification for the code segment to the web application developer, and wherein said receiving the code segment comprises receiving the code segment at least in part in response to said transmitting the specification for the code segment.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein said transmitting a specification for the code segment comprises transmitting a specification according to a specified application programming interface.

25. An article, comprising:

a storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, if executed, enable a computing platform to;

provide a code segment to a web page publisher, the code segment to be embedded in a web page by the web page publisher, the code segment to be executed on a user computing platform;

receive a request for information related to one or more web applications from the user computing platform, the user computing platform to transmit the request in response to executing the code segment; and

provide information related to the one or more web applications to the user computing platform.

26. The article of claim 25, wherein the storage medium has stored thereon further instructions that, if executed, further enable the computing platform to provide the code segment by providing code to allow a user to select from among one or more web applications.

27. The article of claim 26, wherein the storage medium has stored thereon further instructions that, if executed, further enable the computing platform to provide the code segment by providing code to allow the user to specify a look and/or feel of the executed code segment.

28. The article of claim 25, wherein the storage medium has stored thereon further instructions that, if executed, further enable the computing platform to provide the code segment by providing a code segment compliant with a Javascript specification.

29. The article of claim 25, wherein the storage medium has stored thereon further instructions that, if executed, further enable the computing platform to provide information related to the one or more web applications by assembling information to be rendered at the user computing platform in connection with executing the code segment.

30. The article of claim 29, wherein the storage medium has stored thereon further instructions that, if executed, further enable the computing platform to assemble information to be rendered by assembling social backend information related to the one or more web applications.

31. The article of claim 30, wherein the social backend information comprises one or more of a friends list, a user profile, and/or an image.

32. The article of claim 30, wherein the storage medium has stored thereon further instructions that, if executed, further enable the computing platform to assemble information to be rendered at the user computing platform in connection with executing code segment by assembling a batch of one or more web applications associated with a specified user identification.

33. The article of claim 32, wherein the storage medium has stored thereon further instructions that, if executed, further enable the computing platform to assemble the batch of one or more web applications by assembling a batch of one or more of a game application, a fantasy sports application, a financial application, and/or a word processing application.

34. The article of claim 25, wherein the storage medium has stored thereon further instructions that, if executed, further enable the computing platform to:

receive a specification for the code segment; and

provide the code segment by providing the code segment at least in part in response to said receiving the specification for the code segment.

35. The article of claim 34, wherein the storage medium has stored thereon further instructions that, if executed, further enable the computing platform to receive a specification for the code segment by receiving a specification according to a specified application programming interface.

36. An article, comprising:

a storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, if executed, enable a computing platform to;

receive a code segment from a web application developer, the web application to be executed by a user computing platform;

generate a web page comprising the code segment; and

transmit the web page to the user computing platform, the user computing platform to request information related to the code segment from a backend information publisher in response to the user computing platform executing the code segment, the user computing platform to receive information related to the code segment from the backend information publisher.

37. The article of claim 36, wherein the backend information publisher comprises the web application developer.

38. The article of claim 36, wherein the storage medium has stored thereon further instructions that, if executed, further enable the computing platform to transmit the web page to the user computing platform by transmitting the web page via an Internet in response to a user selecting a link pointing to the web page.

39. The article of claim 38, wherein the storage medium has stored thereon further instructions that, if executed, further enable the computing platform to receive the code segment by receiving code to allow a user to select from among one or more web applications.

40. The article of claim 39, wherein the storage medium has stored thereon further instructions that, if executed, further enable the computing platform to receive the code segment by receiving code to allow the user to specify a look and/or feel of the executed code segment.

41. The article of claim 36, wherein the storage medium has stored thereon further instructions that, if executed, further enable the computing platform to receive the code segment by receiving a code segment compliant with a Javascript specification.

42. The article of claim 36, wherein said information related to the one or more web applications to be requested by the user computing platform comprises information to be assembled at the backend information publisher, the assembled information to be rendered at the user computing platform in connection with executing the code segment.

43. The article of claim 42, wherein said assembled information to be rendered comprises social backend information related to the one or more web applications.

44. The article of claim 43, wherein the social backend information comprises one or more of a friends list, a user profile, and/or an image.

45. The article of claim 43, wherein said assembled information to be rendered at the user computing platform in connection with executing the code segment comprises a batch of one or more web applications associated with a specified user identification.

46. The article of claim 45, wherein said assembled batch of one or more web applications comprises a batch of one or more of a game application, a fantasy sports application, a financial application, and/or a word processing application.

47. The article of claim 36, wherein the storage medium has stored thereon further instructions that, if executed, further enable the computing platform to transmit a specification for the code segment to the web application developer, and to receive the code segment by receiving the code segment at least in part in response to said transmitting the specification for the code segment.

48. The article of claim 47, wherein the storage medium has stored thereon further instructions that, if executed, further enable the computing platform to transmit the specification for the code segment by transmitting the specification according to a specified application programming interface.

49. An apparatus, comprising:

means for providing a code segment to a web page publisher, the code segment to be embedded in a web page by the web page publisher, the code segment to be executed on a user computing platform;

means for receiving a request for information related to one or more web applications from the user computing platform, the user computing platform to transmit the request in response to executing the code segment; and

means for providing information related to the one or more web applications to the user computing platform.

50. An apparatus, comprising:

means for receiving a code segment from a web application developer, the web application to be executed by a user computing platform;

means for generating a web page comprising the code segment; and

means for transmitting the web page to the user computing platform, the user computing platform to request information related to the code segment from a backend information publisher in response to the user computing platform executing the code segment, the user computing platform to receive information related to the code segment from the backend information publisher.