RENDERING SOURCE REGIONS INTO TARGET REGIONS OF WEB PAGES

• US 20120159307A1
• Filed: 12/17/2010
• Published: 06/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Chung, Wook Jin, Garuda, Gupta, Kumar, Rahul Sudhir, Estes, Chad Steven
• Granted Patent: US 9,378,294 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• 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 source region of a source web page within a target region of a target web page on a device having a processor, the method comprising:

executing on the processor instructions configured to;

render the source web page;

extract the source region from the source web page;

render the target web page; and

present to the user the source region of the source web page within the target region of the target web page.

2. The method of claim 1, the target web page specifying the source region

according to a coordinate set within the source web page bounding the source region.

3. The method of claim 1:

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

the target region having at least one target region dimension value for the region dimension that is different from the source region dimension value; and

the instructions configured to adjust the source region extracted from the source web page to match the target region dimension value of the target region.

4. The method of claim 1:

the source region configured to render as;

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

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

rendering the source web page comprising;

rendering the source region of the source web page according to the target region presentation.

5. The method of claim 1, the source region comprising a source region presentation that:

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

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

6. The method of claim 1:

the target web page restricted to a target domain; and

the source region restricted to a source domain associated with the source web page while presented within the target region.

7. The method of claim 6:

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

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

8. The method of claim 7:

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

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

9. The method of claim 6:

the target web page comprising a second target region;

the source web page comprising a second source region presented within the second target region and restricted to the source domain; and

the source region configured to communicate with the second source region.

10. The method of claim 9, the source region configured to communicate directly with the second source region within the target web page.

11. The method of claim 9:

the source domain associated with a source server; and

the source region configured to communicate with the second source region by sending a communication to the source server for delivery to the second source region.

12. The method of claim 9, the source region configured to communicate with the second source region by:

configuring the source region to store on the device at least one source domain resource restricted to the source domain; and

configuring the second source region to retrieve the at least one source domain resource.

13. The method of claim 6, the source region configured to receive from the user a user interaction with the source region.

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

notify the source server of the user interaction, and

upon receiving a source server response from the source server, utilize the source server response to update the source region.

15. The method of claim 13, the instructions configured to, upon receiving the user interaction:

render a second source web page, and

present the second source web page to the user within the target region of the target web page.

16. The method of claim 13:

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

the instructions configured to, upon receiving the user interaction;

instantiate a second web page interface;

render a second source web page; and

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

17. The method of claim 13, the instructions configured to, upon receiving from the user the user interaction, notify a tracking server of the user interaction.

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

rendering the source region within a tracking frame rendered within the target 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 target region of the target web page.

19. A system configured to render a source portion of a source web page within a target portion of a target web page, the system comprising:

a web page rendering component configured to;

render the source web page, and

render the target web page;

a source region extracting component configured to extract the source region from the source web page; and

a target region inserting component configured to display the source region of the source web page within the target region of the target web page.

20. A computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed on a processor of a device, present to a user a source region specified by a source web page according to a coordinate set bounding the source region within a target region of a target web page, the source region having at least one source region dimension value for a region dimension and the target region having at least one target region dimension value for the region dimension that is different from the source region dimension value, the target web page restricted to a target domain, the source region rendered within the target region and restricted to a source domain associated with the source web page, by:

rendering the source web page;

extracting the source region from the source web page;

rendering the target web page;

adjusting the source region extracted from the source web page to match the target region dimension value of the target region;

presenting to the user the source region of the source web page within the target region of the target web page, the source region presented within a tracking frame rendered within the target region and restricted to a tracking domain associated with the tracking server; and

upon the tracking frame receiving from the user a user interaction within the source region;

notifying a tracking server of the user interaction, and

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