Displaying time-varying internet based data using application media packages

• US 8,510,407 B1
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Issued: 08/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: DoDots Licensing Solutions LLC (Strategic Intellectual Solutions, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Mainstream Scientific, LLC (Innovation Management Sciences, LLC)
• Inventors: Kembel, John Albert, Gabbay, Lynn D., Kembel, Jeremy L., Kembel, Geoffrey S., Wobbrock, Jake, Russell, John, Kim, Daniel S., Kembel, George Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): LIN, KENNY S
• Application Number:
  US11/932,553
• Time in Patent Office: 2,113 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/219
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/221 Parsing markup language streams streaming G06F40/149
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A software component for accessing and displaying time-varying Internet content includes a definition for rendering a graphical user interface and a URL pointing to the time-varying Internet content to be downloaded and presented within said user interface. A component provider may create displays of Internet content which vary as a function of the varying of the time-varying Internet content. In one example, the graphical user interface includes an image, and the image varies in order to illustrate the varying of the time-varying data.

Claims

1. A client computing device configured to access content over a network, the client computing device comprising:

electronic storage configured to store networked information monitor template associated with a networked information monitor, the networked information monitor template having therein a definition of a viewer graphical user interface having a frame within which time-varying content in a web browser-readable language may be presented on a display associated with the client computing device, wherein the frame of the viewer graphical user interface lacks controls for enabling a user to specify a network location at which content for the networked information monitor is available; and

one or more processors configured to execute one or more computer program modules, the one or more computer program modules being configured to access the networked information monitor defined by the networked information monitor template, wherein accessing the networked information monitor defined by the networked information monitor template results in;

transmission, over a network to a web server at a network location, of a content request for content to be displayed within the frame of the viewer graphical user interface defined by the networked information monitor template;

reception, over the network from the web server at the network location, of content transmitted from the web server in response to the content request, the content being time-varying;

presentation, on the display, of the viewer graphical user interface defined by the networked information monitor template outside of and separate from any graphical user interface of any other application; and

presentation, on the display within the frame of the viewer graphical user interface defined by the networked information monitor, of the time-varying content received from the web server.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, responsive to reception of one or more elements included in the received time-varying content, modifying a feature of said viewer graphical user interface defined by the networked information monitor template in accordance with a modification corresponding to the received one or more elements.

3. The client computing device of claim 2, wherein said modification corresponding to the received one or more elements comprises a modification to an image defined by the networked information monitor template as forming a part of said viewer graphical user interface.

4. The client computing device of claim 2, wherein the correspondence between the modification and the received one or more elements is defined by the networked information monitor template.

5. The client computing device of claim 2, wherein the one or more computer program modules and the networked information monitor template are configured such that modifying the feature of the viewer graphical user interface comprises adjusting a size of the frame of the viewer graphical user interface.

6. The client computing device of claim 2, wherein the one or more computer program modules and the networked information monitor template are configured such that modifying the feature of the viewer graphical user interface comprises changing a color of a frame border or background of the viewer graphical user interface.

7. The client computing device of claim 2, wherein the one or more computer program modules and the networked information monitor template are configured such that modifying the feature of the viewer graphical user interface comprises modifying text of the viewer graphical user interface in a manner defined by the networked information monitor template.

8. The client computing device of claim 1, wherein the networked information monitor template includes a markup language file.

9. The client computing device of claim 1, wherein one or more computer program modules are configured such that the time-varying content is received from the web server over the network according to the TCP/IP protocol.

10. The client computing device of claim 1, wherein the network location corresponds to a uniform resource locator included in the networked information monitor template.

11. The client computing device of claim 10, wherein the one or more computer program modules are further configured such that accessing the networked information monitor defined by the networked information monitor template results in transmission of the content request to the uniform resource locator included in the networked information monitor template, and the content request being transmitted according to the TCP/IP protocol over the network.

12. The client computing device of claim 1, wherein the one or more computer program modules are further configured:

to transmit, over the network to a networked information monitor server, a request for the networked information monitor template;

to receive, from the networked information monitor server over the network, the networked information monitor template; and

to store the networked information monitor template to the electronic storage.

13. A computer-implemented method of accessing content over a network on a client computing device, the client computing device having electronic storage and one or more processors configured to execute one or more computer program modules, the client method comprising:

storing, to the electronic storage, a networked information monitor template associated with a networked information monitor, the networked information monitor template having therein a definition of a viewer graphical user interface having a frame within which time-varying content in a web browser-readable language may be presented on a display associated with the client computing device, wherein the frame of the viewer graphical user interface lacks controls for enabling a user to specify a network location at which content for the networked information monitor is available;

accessing the networked information monitor defined by the networked information monitor template, wherein accessing the networked information monitor defined by the networked information monitor template results in;

transmission, over a network to a web server at a network location, of a content request for content to be displayed in the viewer graphical user interface defined by the networked information monitor template;

reception, over the network from the web server at the network location, of content transmitted from the web server in response to the content request, the content being time-varying;

presentation, on the display, of the viewer graphical user interface defined by the application media package template outside of and separate from any graphical user interface of any other application; and

presentation, on the display within the frame of the viewer graphical user interface defined by the networked information monitor, of the time-varying content received from the web server.

14. The method of claim 13, responsive to reception of one or more elements included in the received time-varying content, modifying a feature of said viewer graphical user interface defined by the networked information monitor template in accordance with a modification corresponding to the received one or more elements.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein said modification corresponding to the received one or more elements comprises a modification to an image defined by the networked information monitor template as forming a part of said viewer graphical user interface.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the correspondence between the modification and the received one or more elements is defined by the networked information monitor template.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein modifying the feature of the viewer graphical user interface comprises adjusting a size of the frame of the viewer graphical user interface.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein modifying the feature of the viewer graphical user interface comprises changing a color of a frame border or background of the viewer graphical user interface.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein modifying the feature of the viewer graphical user interface comprises modifying text of the viewer graphical user interface in a manner defined by the networked information monitor template.

20. The method of claim 13, wherein the networked information monitor template includes a markup language file, and wherein storing the networked information monitor template comprises storing the markup language file.

21. The method of claim 13, wherein the time-varying content is received from the web server over the network according to the TCP/IP protocol.

22. The method of claim 13, wherein the network location corresponds to a uniform resource locator included in the networked information monitor template.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein accessing the networked information monitor defined by the networked information monitor template results in transmission of the content request to the uniform resource locator included in the networked information monitor template, and the content request being transmitted according to the TCP/IP protocol over the network.

24. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

prior to storing the networked information monitor template to the electronic storage, transmitting, over the network to a networked information monitor server, a request for the networked information monitor template; and

receiving, from the networked information monitor server over the network, the networked information monitor template.