Method of controlling a browser session
AssigneeInternational Busi ness Machines Corporation
InventorsGlenn Darrell Batalden, Keith Evans Bright, Mark Earl Plunkett
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Abstract
Method, article of manufacture and apparatus for controlling the operation and appearance of browsers. A controlled browser window comprises a display area for rendering viewable content received from received from network locations. A controlling browser window is configured to control aspects of the controlled browser window. In one embodiment, a program implementing the controlling browser window comprises event handlers which produce a predetermined result in response to events occurring with respect to the controlled browser window. The event handlers may be re-established for each domain change of the controlled browser window.
Claims33
A method for controlling a viewable browser window, comprising:
- opening a controlling browser window configured to control aspects of a controlled browser window;
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- opening the controlled browser window comprising a display area for rendering viewable content received from network locations.
A computer readable medium containing a controlling browser program which, when executed, performs an operation for controlling a controlled browser window comprising a display area for rendering viewable content received from network locations, the operation comprising:
- opening a controlling browser window configured to control aspects of the controlled browser window.
A computer, comprising:
- a memory containing at least a browser programming;
- a processor which when executing the browser programming, is configured to:
- open a controlling browser window configured to control aspects of a controlled browser window, the aspects comprising at least one of operational aspects and graphical aspects of a graphical user interface;
- and
- open the controlled browser window comprising a display area for rendering viewable content received from network locations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.