US 2006/0235960 A1Published application

Method for blocking network advertising

AssigneeInventec Appliances Corp.

InventorsCheng-Shing Lai, Jian-Ning Ding, Sheng-Hong Yang

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Abstract

The present invention discloses a method for blocking network advertising, which comprises the steps of installing a blocking software program having at least one blocking module in the storage medium of an electronic device, each blocking module has different blocking conditions going with a corresponding processing condition respectively, such that during the process of the electronic device reading a webpage editing content, the electronic device will execute the blocking software program and use the blocking module to process the webpage editing content. If the webpage editing content matches any of the blocking conditions, the corresponding processing condition will be used for processing accordingly and prevent the network advertising from appearing on the browser window or keep on processing the webpage editing content.

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Dependent claims

A method for blocking network advertising, having a blocking software program installed in a storage device of an electronic device, and said blocking software program having at least one blocking module, and said blocking module defining a blocking condition and a processing condition corresponding to said blocking condition, such that after said electronic device reads a webpage editing content, the processing procedure of said electronic device comprising the steps of:

said electronic device executing said blocking software program;
said blocking software program analyzing a part of said webpage editing content to check if said part matches said blocking condition of one of said blocking modules;
if said part matches said blocking condition of one of said blocking modules, then said webpage editing content is processed according to said processing condition corresponding to said blocking condition to restrict said network advertising from being displayed, and the rest of said webpage editing content is processed.

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