US 2021/0232408 A1 · Simulated Visual Hierarchy While Facilitating Cross-Extension Communication

Abstract

To provide a hierarchical visual paradigm while maintaining the communication advantages of sibling extensions, a visual hierarchy simulation extension generates and maintains placeholders in a visually hierarchical manner, with the visual positioning of such placeholders informing the visual positioning of overlays of frames hosting the visual output of sibling extensions. Such a visual hierarchy simulation extension is utilized to layout and establish a desired visual hierarchy. One or more modules of computer-executable instructions are invoked to provide the relevant functionality, including the obtaining of the visual positioning of placeholders, the relevant visual translation between the visual positioning of placeholders and the visual overlaying of corresponding frames, the generation and movement of the corresponding frames, and the instantiation of extension content within the corresponding frames. The visual hierarchy simulation extension is hosted independently from the one or more modules.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a first computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a module comprising instructions which, when executed by a browser application program in rendering a first webpage, cause the browser to:
create a first placeholder as part of the rendering of the first webpage;
obtain a first placeholder location of the first placeholder in the rendered first webpage, the first placeholder location being a visual area within the rendered first webpage;
determine a first frame location based on the first placeholder location to visually overlay a first frame over the first placeholder;
generate the first frame at the first frame location such that the first frame visually overlays the first placeholder;
and
render content from a second webpage in the first frame.

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A method of displaying outputs of web extensions, the method comprising:

receiving a first placeholder location information of a first placeholder in a rendered first webpage, the first placeholder location delineating a visual area within the rendered first webpage;
determining a first frame location based on the first placeholder location information to visually overlay a first frame over the first placeholder;
generating the first frame at the first frame location such that the first frame visually overlays the first placeholder;
and
rendering content from a second webpage in the first frame, the second webpage being one of the web extensions;
wherein the web extensions are a same document object model hierarchical level;
and
wherein further the displaying of the outputs of the web extensions simulates a multi-level visual hierarchy.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Simulated Visual Hierarchy While Facilitating Cross-Extension Communication

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Simulated Visual Hierarchy While Facilitating Cross-Extension Communication

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Abstract

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