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Web usage overlays for third-party web plug-in content

  • US 7,584,435 B2
  • Filed: 01/26/2006
  • Issued: 09/01/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for using a processor for determining existing dimensions of an element being displayed at an original position within a plug-in resource having a rectangular output region, the element having an origin point, the method comprising:

  • moving the element so that its origin point is at a first corner of the output region;

    measuring a first increase in a horizontal dimension of the output region resulting from moving the element;

    measuring a first increase in a vertical dimension of the output region resulting from moving the element;

    moving the element so that its origin point is at a second corner of the output region, the second corner being diagonally opposite the first corner;

    measuring a second increase in a horizontal dimension of the output region resulting from moving the element;

    measuring a second increase in a vertical dimension of the output region resulting from moving the element;

    determining an existing horizontal dimension of the element as equal to the sum of the first and second measured increases in the horizontal dimension of the output region;

    determining an existing vertical dimension of the element as equal to the sum of the first and second measured increases in the vertical dimension of the output region; and

    subsequently to measuring the increases in the horizontal and vertical dimensions, restoring the element to its original position within the output region.

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