System and method for dynamically changing the content of an internet web page

• US 9,218,620 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2012
• Issued: 12/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Melet, Stone J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): ROBINSON, MARSHON L
• Application Number:
  US13/729,810
• Publication Number:
  US 20130185652A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,089 Days
• Field of Search: 715/753, 715/760, 715/763
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/202 Interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network details, transfer of information from host to ECR or from ECR to ECR
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15

Abstract

A host Web page includes an evolving interactive dialog box wherein an Internet user may enter user data to be processed. When the user completes entering user data in a first revolution of the interactive dialog box, the first revolution is replaced with a second revolution of the evolving interactive dialog box without disturbing or affecting any other part of the host Web page being displayed. Beneficially, the first and second revolutions may be communicated to a user computer together with and at a same time as the host Web page. Also, the second revolution may include a variety of data which is selected or customized to match the user data submitted in the first revolution. Each revolution of the evolving interactive dialog box may be comprised of any combination of general textual data entry fields, category (pull-down) menus, contact information data entry fields, and opt-in/opt-out buttons.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

using a processor to store a first code set for presenting a first revolution of an interactive dialog box in a portion of an information display in response to interpretation of the first code set,

the first code set further to cause presentation of a second revolution of the interactive dialog box in response to receipt of user input entered into a text entry field of the first revolution of the interactive dialog box, the first code set to cause presentation of the second revolution of the interactive dialog box using only data included in the first code set, the second revolution box including content selected based on one or more preassigned keywords detected in the user input entered into the text entry field of the first revolution, the second revolution being displayed without disturbing or affecting at least one other portion of information presented in the information display;

storing a second code set to receive the user input in the text entry field of the first revolution; and

causing transfer of the first and second code sets via a network.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the first revolution is replaced “

in place”

with the second revolution.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the first and second code sets are stored by one or more servers.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the first and second code sets are transferred in any order via the network to a client device.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the first and second code sets are transferred via the network to a client device by one or more servers.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the content is selected from a predefined set of content.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the second revolution is a graphic image.

8. A method comprising:

using a processor to receive a first and second code set via a network;

using the first code set to present a first revolution of an interactive dialog box in a portion of an information display in response to interpretation of the first code set;

using the second code set to receive a user input entered into a text entry field of the first revolution; and

using only data included in the first code set to present a second revolution of the interactive dialog box in response to receipt of the user input, the second revolution including content selected based on one or more preassigned keywords detected in the user input entered into the text entry field of the first revolution, the second revolution being displayed without disturbing or affecting at least one other portion of information presented in the information display.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8 wherein the first revolution is replaced “

in place”

with the second revolution.

10. The method as claimed in claim 8 wherein the first and second code sets are received via the network from one or more servers.

11. The method as claimed in claim 8 wherein the first and second code sets are received in any order via the network.

12. The method as claimed in claim 8 wherein the content is selected from a predefined set of content.

13. The method as claimed in claim 8 wherein the second revolution is a graphic image.

14. A system comprising:

a computer;

network components coupled to the computer for transferring data via a network; and

a processing system implemented on the computer to

store a first code set for presenting a first revolution of an interactive dialog box in a portion of an information display in response to interpretation of the first code set, the first code set further to present a second revolution of the interactive dialog box in response to receipt of user input entered into a text entry field of the first revolution, the first code set to cause presentation of the second revolution of the interactive dialog box using only data included in the first code set, the second revolution including content selected based on one or more preassigned keywords detected in the user input entered into the text entry field of the first revolution, the second revolution being displayed without disturbing or affecting at least one other portion of information presented in the information display;

store a second code set to receive a user input; and

cause the transfer of the first and second code sets via the network.

15. The system as claimed in claim 14 wherein the first revolution is replaced “

in place”

with the second revolution.

16. The system as claimed in claim 14 wherein the first and second code sets are stored by one or more servers.

17. The system as claimed in claim 14 wherein the first and second code sets are transferred in any order via the network to a client device.

18. The system as claimed in claim 14 wherein the first and second code sets are transferred via the network to a client device by one or more servers.

19. The system as claimed in claim 14 wherein the content is selected from a predefined set of content.

20. The system as claimed in claim 14 wherein the second revolution is a graphic image.