Method of plug-in content hosting

• US 9,460,459 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Issued: 10/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Piloandia, LLC
• Original Assignee: UnoWeb Virtual, LLC
• Inventors: Almeida, John
• Primary Examiner(s): HUYNH, THU V
• Application Number:
  US11/932,774
• Publication Number:
  US 20080052615A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,261 Days
• Field of Search: 715/205, 715/234, 715/749, 715/760, 715/255, 705 26- 29, 705/26.1, 705/27.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0613 Third-party assisted
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0621 Item configuration or customization
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers

Abstract

A method of presentation in a network for the display of virtual content by a server computer comprising steps of hosting content hosts or websites on the network, wherein each content host is flexibly configured to enable another content host to be virtually incorporated into any other content host while preserving the composition of the content and the behavior of display of the content that is virtually displayed.

Claims

1. A method of content presentation in a network comprising the display of virtual content by a server computer, the server computer comprising non-transitory memory storage medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method, the method comprising the steps of:

the server hosting a plurality of content hosts on the network, the plurality of content hosts comprising;

a first content host, a second content host, and an incorporating content host;

wherein the second content host comprises a content;

enabling the first content host;

to be displayed on the incorporating content host; and

when so displayed on the incorporating content host, to present the content as virtual content to a user accessing the first content host on the incorporating content host;

and

enabling presentation of the content to a user accessing the first content host on the incorporating content host.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of enabling a user of the network to provide the second content host and the content to the incorporating content host.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the incorporating content host is an e-mall.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the content comprises ecommerce selected from the group consisting of goods and services.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the content is retrieved from the second content host by the incorporating content host.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the second content host and the incorporating content host are located at two distinct network addresses.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of enabling the incorporating content host to register the first content host.