Automated changing of a content set displaying in a designated display area of a webpage displaying on a display screen of a browser
OwnerCatherine Lin-Hendelinventor
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Abstract
A method and system to program multiple sets of digital content to be displayed in time sequence in a designated display area in a webpage, and automatically changing the displaying content-set, cycling through the multiple sets of content in the designated display area without user initiated action for each change of the displaying content-set.
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A method of programming a webpage of a website to time-share at least one designated displaying area of a part of the webpage to display a plurality of sets of content one set of content at a time, each for a pre-designated time interval when the webpage is accessed by a user through entering a uniform resource locater (URL) of the webpage into a web-browser on an interactive display screen of an electronic display device, the method comprising:
- designating and defining the at least one designated displaying area in a user desired displaying area on a desired part of the webpage for displaying a plurality of sets of content;
- designing a plurality of sets of content that a website owner most want users of the website to see on this part of the webpage, and program the plurality of sets of content to be displayed in the designated displaying area of the webpage and store them in the database of the webpage;
- designating a time interval for displaying each set of the plurality of sets of content;
- programming the displaying of the webpage to automatically display the plurality of sets of content one at a time in the designated displaying area of the webpage when the URL is entered into the web-browser by the user, each set of content displaying for a pre-designated time interval for the set of content, including:
- after a first set of content of the plurality of sets of content displaying for a first interval of time, automatically removing the first set of content from the designated displaying area, and moving into the designated displaying area a second set of content of the plurality of sets of content for a second interval of time, the second set of content replacing the first set of content so that there is continual and automatic progressing to display a next set of content of the plurality of sets of content by replacing an immediately preceding set of content displayed in the designated displaying area, and continually looping through the plurality of sets of content when no user command is issued for a change, automated looping requiring no user action, except for when an initiation action to commence automated looping is desired;
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- programming a user-website interaction mechanism used with the designated displaying area of the webpage for the user to receive instructions from the website and for the website to receive a user command.
A system comprising a plurality of networked computers and electronic display devices loaded with software programs including website hosting utilities, databases, web-browser software and webpage programming and displaying software linking to the web-browser and the electronic display devices;
- the system further comprising:
- a webpage of a website programmed to time-share a designated displaying area in a part of the webpage to display a plurality of sets of content one set of content at a time, each for a pre-designated time interval when the webpage is accessed by a user through entering a uniform resource locater (URL) of the webpage into a web-browser on an interactive display screen of an electronic display device, the system enables:
- the designation and defining of a displaying area on a part of the webpage for displaying
- a plurality of sets of important content that a website owner most wants users of the website to see in this designated display area,
- designing the plurality of sets of content to store in a easily updatable fashion in the database for the webpage and designating a desired time interval to display each set of the plurality of the content set and store the time intervals in an easily updatable fashion in the database of the webpage,
- displaying the plurality of sets of content in the designated displaying area of the webpage displaying in a web-browser each for a designated time interval when a user enters the URL of the webpage into the web-browser on the electronic display device;
- the web-browser displaying the webpage on the electronic device automatically displays the plurality of sets of content one at a time in the designated displaying area of the webpage when the URL is entered into the web-browser by the user, each set of content displaying for a pre-designated time interval for the set of content, including:
- after a first set of content of the plurality of sets of content displaying for a first interval of time, automatically removing the first set of content from the designated displaying area, and moving into the designated displaying area a second set of content of the plurality of sets of content for a second interval of time, the second set of content replacing the first set of content so that there is continual and automatic progressing to display a next set of content of the plurality of sets of content by replacing an immediately preceding set of content displayed in the displaying area, and continually looping through the plurality of sets of content when no user command is issued for a change, automated looping requiring no user action, except for when desired an initiation action to commence automated looping;
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- a mechanism allowing user-website interaction used with the designated displaying area of the webpage for the user to receive instructions from the website and the website to receive a user command.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.