Third-party-secured zones on web pages

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• storing, in an authentication server system, a plurality of unique identification codes assigned to respective entities;
• providing a plurality of secure zone HTML code elements to be placed on a web page in association with respective identifiers of the entities, the HTML code elements specifying respective ones of the unique identification codes for the respective associated identifiers of the entities, and the HTML code elements specifying creation of respective inline frames on the web page;
• upon opening of the web page in a browser, triggering execution of a server-side program at the authentication server system, which program receives the unique identification codes specified by the code elements;
• authenticating the received unique identification codes by comparing the received unique identification codes to the unique identification codes stored in the authentication server system;
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• for each match found between one of the received unique identification codes and one of the stored unique identification codes, delivering, by the authentication server system, web content to or via the one of the inline frames associated with the one of the received unique identification codes.

Apparatus comprising:

• an interface for communicating with a browser over a network;
• a memory, configured to store a plurality of unique identification codes assigned to respective entities, and to store a URL identifying at least one web page having thereon a plurality of secure zone HTML code elements placed in association with respective identifiers of the entities, the HTML code elements specifying respective ones of the unique identification codes for the respective associated identifiers of the entities, and the HTML code elements specifying creation of respective inline frames on the web page;
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• a processor, configured to execute, upon opening of a web page in the browser, a server-side program that receives the unique identification codes specified by the code elements, to authenticate the received unique identification codes by comparing the received unique identification codes to the unique identification codes stored in the memory, and, for each match found between one of the received unique identification codes and one of the stored unique identification codes, to deliver, via the interface, web content to or via the one of the inline frames associated with the one of the received unique identification codes.

A computer software product comprising a tangible computer-readable medium in which program instructions are stored, which instructions, when read by a computer, cause the computer to store a plurality of unique identification codes assigned to respective entities;

• to store a URL identifying at least one web page having thereon a plurality of secure zone HTML code elements placed in association with respective identifiers of the entities, the HTML code elements specifying respective ones of the unique identification codes for the respective associated identifiers of the entities, and the HTML code elements specifying creation of respective inline frames on the web page;
• to execute, upon opening of a web page in a browser, a server-side program that receives the unique identification codes specified by the code elements;
• to authenticate the received unique identification codes by comparing the received unique identification codes to the stored unique identification codes;
• and, for each match found between one of the received unique identification codes and one of the stored unique identification codes, to deliver web content to or via the one of the inline frames associated with the one of the received unique identification codes.