Popup advertising display in a web browser
OwnerDavid H. Judsoninventor
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Abstract
A method of display as a user of the Internet uses a client machine during an Internet transaction (e.g., e-mail, file transfer, bulletin board, chat or browsing). The client machine supports a graphical user interface and mechanisms that provide such Internet services. The method locally stores information content served during idle periods when the user's connection to the network is live. During a given Internet transaction, the information content is retrieved and displayed to provide entertainment or information as the user waits for the Internet transaction to be completed.
Claims1
A method of serving a page of information for delivery over a computer network to a user's browser running on a client, comprising:
- receiving a request for the page made from a user's browser;
- and
- serving the page in response to the request from a first server;
- wherein the page includes a link to a resource on the computer network and code for generating a markup language page having advertising content that is displayed interstitially in a popup window independent of the page or the resource;
- wherein the advertising content is served from a server distinct from the first server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.