Presenting source regions of rendered source web pages in target regions of target web pages

• US 9,378,294 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2010
• Issued: 06/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Chung, Wook Jin, Garuda, Gupta, Kumar, Rahul Sudhir, Estes, Chad Steven
• Primary Examiner(s): Zuberi, Mohammed-Ibrahim
• Application Number:
  US12/971,664
• Publication Number:
  US 20120159307A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,020 Days
• Field of Search: 715/234, 715/240, 715/211, 715/253
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A target web page may embed resources hosted by a source server. However, this embedding may result in compatibility and/or security issues; e.g., the dimensions of the embedded resource may skew the layout of the target web page. Instead, a source web page may be rendered separately from a target web page, and a source region of the source web page (e.g., a region defined by a set of coordinates) may be extracted from the source web page and may be presented in a target region of the target web page. The elements of the source region may be displayed and executed in isolation within the source web page, and may operate within a source domain (e.g., communicating with the source server and accessing cookies stored by the source server), yet may not interact with the elements of the target web page, thereby alleviating many compatibility and security problems.

Claims

1. A method of presenting to a user a first web page identified by a first location on a device having a processor, the method comprising:

executing on the processor instructions configured to;

obtain from the first location a first source document specifying a first coordinate set identifying a first region of the first web page, and a second coordinate set identifying a second region within a second web page available at a second location and to be presented within the first region of the first web page;

obtain from the second location a second source document;

render the second source document to generate a second rendered web page;

extract from the second rendered web page the second region specified in the first source document as the second coordinate set;

render the first source document to generate a first rendered web page inserting the second region extracted from within the second coordinate set of the second rendered web page into the first region of the first rendered web page defined by the first coordinate set; and

present the first rendered web page to the user.

2. The method of claim 1:

the second region having at least one second region dimension value for a region dimension;

the first region having at least one first region dimension value for the region dimension that is different from the second region dimension value; and

the instructions configured to adjust the second region extracted from the second web page to match the first region dimension value of the first region.

3. The method of claim 1:

the second region configured to render as;

a second region presentation when rendered within the second web page, and

a first region presentation when rendered within a first region of a first web page; and

rendering the second web page comprising;

rendering the second region of the second web page according to the first region presentation.

4. The method of claim 1, the second region comprising a second region presentation that:

when rendered within a first region of the first web page, matches the first region of the first web page; and

when rendered within a first region of a third web page that is different from the first web page, matches the first region of the third web page.

5. The method of claim 1:

the first web page restricted to a first domain; and

the second region restricted to a second domain associated with the second web page while presented within the first region.

6. The method of claim 5:

the device storing at least one second domain resource restricted to the second domain; and

the second region configured to access the at least one second domain resource.

7. The method of claim 6:

at least one second domain resource associated with an association of the user with the second web page; and

the second region configured to utilize the at least one second domain resource to personalize the second region for the user.

8. The method of claim 5:

the first web page specifying a third coordinate set specifying a third region of the first web page, wherein a fourth region identified by a fourth coordinate set of a third web page available at a third location is to be presented; and

the second region configured to communicate with the third region when presented within the first web page.

9. The method of claim 8, the second region configured to communicate directly with the fourth region within the first web page.

10. The method of claim 8:

the third web page associated with a second server; and

the second region configured to communicate with the fourth region within the first web page by sending a communication to the second server for delivery to the fourth region.

11. The method of claim 8, the second region configured to communicate with the fourth region within the first web page by:

configuring the second region to store on the device at least one domain resource restricted to a domain that is associated with the third web page; and

configuring the fourth region to retrieve the at least one domain resource that is associated with the third web page.

12. The method of claim 5, the second region configured to receive from the user a user interaction with the second region.

13. The method of claim 12, the second region configured to, upon receiving the user interaction:

notify a second server providing the second source document of the user interaction, and

upon receiving a second server response from the second server, update the second region presented within the first region of the first web page according to the second server response.

14. The method of claim 12, the instructions configured to, upon receiving the user interaction:

obtain from the second location a third source document;

render the third source document to produce a third rendered web page;

extract from the third rendered web page a third region; and

present the third region of the third web page to the user within the first region of the first web page.

15. The method of claim 12:

the first web page rendered in a second web page interface; and

the instructions configured to, upon receiving the user interaction;

instantiate a second web page interface;

render a second web page;

obtain from the second location a third source document;

render the third source document to produce a third rendered web page;

extract from the third rendered web page a third region; and

present the second web page to the user within the second web page interface.

16. The method of claim 12, the instructions configured to, upon receiving from the user the user interaction, notify a tracking server of the user interaction.

17. The method of claim 16, notifying the tracking server comprising:

rendering the second region within a tracking frame rendered within the first region and restricted to a tracking domain associated with the tracking server, the tracking frame configured to;

receive the user interaction;

notify the tracking server of the user interaction; and

propagate the interaction into the first region of the first web page.

18. A system for rendering a first web page identified by a first location and including, in a first region of the first web page, a second region of a second web page, the system comprising:

a web page renderer comprising instructions stored in the memory that, when executed on the processor, cause the device to;

obtain from the first location a first source document specifying a first coordinate set identifying a first region of the first web page, and a second coordinate set identifying a second region within a second web page available at a second location and to be presented within the first region of the first web page;

obtain from the second location a second source document;

render the second source document to generate a second rendered web page; and

extract from the second rendered web page the second region specified in the first source document as the second coordinate set; and

render the first source document to generate a first rendered web page inserting the second region extracted from within the second coordinate set of the second rendered web page into the first region of the first rendered web page defined by the first coordinate set; and

a web page presenter comprising instructions stored in the memory that, when executed on the processor, cause the device to present the first rendered web page to the user.

19. A device presents a first web page identified at a first location, the device comprising:

a display;

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the device to;

obtain from the first location a first source document specifying a first coordinate set identifying a first region of the first web page, and a second coordinate set identifying a second region within a second web page available at a second location and to be presented within the first region of the first web page;

obtain from the second location a second source document;

render the second source document to generate a second rendered web page;

extract from the second rendered web page the second region specified in the first source document as the second coordinate set;

render the first source document to generate a first rendered web page inserting the second region extracted from within the second coordinate set of the second rendered web page into the first region of the first rendered web page defined by the first coordinate set; and

present the first rendered web page to the user.

20. The device of claim 19, wherein:

the second region having at least one second region dimension value for a region dimension;

the first region having at least one first region dimension value for the region dimension that is different from the second region dimension value; and

the memory further stores instructions that, when executed on the processor, cause the device to adjust the second region extracted from the second web page to match the first region dimension value of the first region.