Method and system of generating digital content on a user interface

• US 9,324,085 B2
• Filed: 07/07/2010
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Collet, Jean-Luc, Lund, Arnaud, Menant, Christophe, Truntschka, Carole
• Primary Examiner(s): Baderman, Scott
• Assistant Examiner(s): JUNG, SEUNG WOON
• Application Number:
  US13/496,003
• Publication Number:
  US 20120233540A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,120 Days
• Field of Search: 715/234
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

There is revealed a progressive and conditional delivery of digital contents. A given master digital content is previously divided in content blocks, each content block being associated with related content blocks presenting particular hierarchical and dependency characteristics. Responsive to user selection of the master digital content, for each selected content block, there is checked first the display of each related content block and upon positive checking there is displayed the considered selected content block. There is further disclosed steps of checking display performed from an analog capture of the user interface or from video frame buffer memory data. There may be detected predefined marks. There may be performed image similarity comparisons or image matching tests with expected images associated with content blocks. There are also disclosed predefined encryption keys being used to decipher one or a plurality of content blocks. In response to a negative display checking according to the invention, there is displayed a predefined content block such as a warning message, an authentication request, a kaptcha challenge, advertisement content or a blurred content block. There is discussed a correspondence of content blocks with DOM nodes.

Claims

1. A method of generating master digital content on a user interface, comprising:

obtaining master digital content divided into a plurality of content blocks, each content block being associated with a hierarchical position;

associating each content block with a set of related content blocks among the plurality of content blocks, the related content blocks being defined from predefined dependency rules;

generating display of content blocks among the plurality of content blocks of the master digital content, responsive to user selection of the master digital content, the generating further comprising, for a root content block, displaying the root content block and, for each content block in descending order of the plurality of content blocks other than the root content block, and having at least one related content block at a higher hierarchical position;

checking display of each related content block having a hierarchical position higher than a position of the content block;

displaying the content block only in response to the checking step resulting in a positive checking indicating that each related content block having a hierarchical position higher than the position of the content block has previously been displayed; and

repeating the checking and displaying steps for each additional content block of the plurality of content blocks, unless the checking step results in a negative checking and, in response to the negative checking, interrupting delivery and display of any remaining content blocks of the plurality of content blocks, and rendering a predefined content block on the user interface, the predefined content block being selected from the group consisting of a warning message, an authentication request, a challenge, an advertisement content, and a blurred content block; and

displaying the master digital content only if the checking step resulted in a positive checking for all of the plurality of content blocks;

wherein the checking is performed from an analogue capture of the user interface, and

wherein each content block exposes an associated predefined mark when rendered, and wherein the checking further includes detecting for each content block the associated predefined mark in the analogue capture of the user interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the checking is performed from video frame buffer memory data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein each content block is associated with a predefined key, and wherein the checking includes detecting for each content block the associated predefined key in the video frame buffer memory data.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein each content block is associated with an expected image, the expected image corresponding to the content block when rendered on the user interface, and wherein a positive checking is determined if image similarity comparisons or image matching tests exceed predefined thresholds;

wherein the comparisons or tests occur between the expected image and the analogue capture of the user interface.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein each content block is associated with an expected image, the expected image corresponding to the content block when rendered on the user interface, and wherein a positive checking is determined if image similarity comparisons or image matching tests exceed predefined thresholds;

wherein the comparisons or tests occur between the expected image and one or a plurality of frames of the video frame buffer memory.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein each content block is associated with a predefined encryption key, the predefined encryption key being used to decipher one or a plurality of content blocks and becoming available in response to a positive checking.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein a content block is a Document Object Model (DOM) node.

8. A computer program stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium for performing a method of generating master digital content on a user interface, when executed by a computer device, the method comprising:

obtaining master digital content divided into a plurality of content blocks, each content block being associated with a hierarchical position;

associating each content block with a set of related content blocks among the plurality of content blocks, the related content blocks being defined from predefined dependency rules; and

generating display of content blocks among the plurality of content blocks of the master digital content, responsive to user selection of the master digital content, the generating further comprising, for a root content block, displaying the root content block and, for each content block in descending order of the plurality of content blocks other than the root content block, and having at least one related content block at a higher hierarchical position;

checking display of each related content block having a hierarchical position higher than a position of the content block;

displaying the content block only in response to the checking step resulting in a positive checking indicating that each related content block having a hierarchical position higher than the position of the content block has previously been displayed; and

repeating the checking and displaying steps for each additional content block of the plurality of content blocks, unless the checking step results in a negative checking and, in response to the negative checking, interrupting delivery and display of any remaining content blocks of the plurality of content blocks, and rendering a predefined content block on the user interface, the predefined content block being selected from the group consisting of a warning message, an authentication request, a challenge, an advertisement content, and a blurred content block; and

displaying the master digital content only if the checking step resulted in a positive checking for all of the plurality of content blocks,

wherein the checking is performed from an analogue capture of the user interface, and

wherein each content block exposes an associated predefined mark when rendered, and wherein the checking further includes detecting for each content block the associated predefined mark in the analogue capture of the user interface.

9. The computer program of claim 8, wherein each content block is associated with a predefined key, and wherein the checking includes detecting for each content block the associated predefined key in the video frame buffer memory data.

10. The computer program of claim 8, wherein each content block is associated with an expected image, the expected image corresponding to the content block when rendered on the user interface, and wherein a positive checking is determined if image similarity comparisons or image matching tests exceed predefined thresholds;

wherein the comparisons or tests occur between the expected image and the analogue capture of the user interface.

11. The computer program of claim 8, wherein each content block is associated with an expected image, the expected image corresponding to the content block when rendered on the user interface, and wherein a positive checking is determined if image similarity comparisons or image matching tests exceed predefined thresholds;

wherein the comparisons or tests occur between the expected image and one or a plurality of frames of the video frame buffer memory.

12. The computer program of claim 8, wherein each content block is associated with a predefined encryption key, the predefined encryption key being used to decipher one or a plurality of content blocks and becoming available in response to a positive checking.

13. A system for generating master digital content on a user interface, comprising:

obtaining master digital content divided into a plurality of content blocks, each content block being associated with a hierarchical position;

associating each content block with a set of related content blocks among the plurality of content blocks, the related content blocks being defined from predefined dependency rules; and

generating, using a computer system, display of content blocks among the plurality of content blocks of the master digital content, responsive to user selection of the master digital content, the generating further comprising, for a root content block, displaying the root content block and, for each content block in descending order of the plurality of content blocks other than the root content block, and having at least one related content block at a higher hierarchical position;

checking display of each related content block having a hierarchical position higher than a position of the content block;

displaying the content block only in response to the checking step resulting in a positive checking indicating that each related content block having a hierarchical position higher than the position of the content block has previously been displayed; and

repeating the checking and displaying steps for each additional content block of the plurality of content blocks, unless the checking step results in a negative checking and, in response to the negative checking, interrupting delivery and display of any remaining content blocks of the plurality of content blocks, and rendering a predefined content block on the user interface, the predefined content block being selected from the group consisting of a warning message, an authentication request, a challenge, an advertisement content, and a blurred content block; and

displaying the master digital content only if the checking step resulted in a positive checking for all of the plurality of content blocks,

wherein the checking is performed from an analogue capture of the user interface, and

wherein each content block exposes an associated predefined mark when rendered, and wherein the checking further includes detecting for each content block the associated predefined mark in the analogue capture of the user interface.