Method for dynamically changing one Web page by another web page

• US 7,328,435 B2
• Filed: 04/04/2002
• Issued: 02/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Andreas Acquisitions, LLC
• Original Assignee: Sizmek Technologies Ltd. (Sizmek, Inc.)
• Inventors: Trifon, Gal
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhen; Wei
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chow; Chih-Ching
• Application Number:
  US10/116,345
• Publication Number:
  US 20030023445A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,133 Days
• Field of Search: 709/232, 709223-224, 715/513, 715/733
• US Class Current: 717/171
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation

Abstract

Method for dynamically changing the content of a first Web page by a second Web page, wherein the first Web page is downloaded by a Web browser from a first domain, and the second Web page is downloaded by the browser from a second domain. One or more commands/procedures are provided for dynamically changing the first Web page and for storing the commands/procedures within the first Web page, or as a separate Web page within the first domain. Whenever the second Web page is downloaded in combination with the first Web page, the commands/procedures identify the downloaded second Web page and change at least a portion of the content of the first Web page by executing visual operations that are associated with the downloaded second Web page.

Claims

1. A method for dynamically changing the content of a first Web page by a second Web page, wherein said first Web page is downloaded by a Web browser from a first domain and contains a frame for displaying the second Web page, and said second Web page is downloaded by said Web browser from a second domain different from the first domain, comprising:

a) storing at the first domain one or more command(s)/procedure(s) for dynamically changing said first Web page,

b) upon downloading said second Web page, invoking and performing said one or more of said command(s)/procedure(s) stored at the first domains, performance of the command(s)/procedure(s) being directed by parameters; and

c) executing the stored one or more of said command(s)/procedure(s) so as to change at least a portion of the content of said first Web page, wherein the second Web page is an iFrame within said first Web page.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the parameters are passed by cookies and/or by JAVA applets.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the second Web page includes a tag that instructs the Web browser to load the separate Web page that resides within the first domain.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the first Web page includes a tag that instructs the Web browser to load the separate Web page that resides within the first domain.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the second Web page and/or the first Web page and/or the separate Web page are HTML objects within an HTML object tree downloaded by a Web browser.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the first Web page and/or the second Web pages and/or the separate Web page are part of a set of HTML objects downloaded by the Web browser.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein the Web pages are HTML based pages.

8. A method according to claim 1, wherein the Web browser is any system capable of displaying Web pages and executing commands embedded in said Web pages.

9. A computerized system having the capability of dynamically changing the content of a first Web page by a second Web page, in which said first Web page is downloaded by a Web browser from a first domain, and said second Web page is downloaded by said Web browser from a second domain, comprising:

one or more Web server(s), for hosting said first and second domains;

software component(s) stored in said one or more Web server(s) as a part of said first domain, the software component(s) including at least one command(s)/procedure(s) for dynamically changing said first Web page, said software component(s) being a part of said first Web page or a part of a separate Web page within said first domain; and

a Web terminal, connected through a data network to said one more Web server(s), by which HTML pages can be browsed and displayed, for downloading said second Web page with said first Web page, by allowing said one or more of said command(s)/procedure(s) to identify the downloaded second Web page and to change at least a portion of the content of said first Web page by executing at least one of said one or more command(s) / procedure(s), wherein the second Web page is a frame within said first Web page.