US 9,430,792 B2Granted

Using cross-domain communication to serve cloud-based product catalog pages from a seller's domain

AssigneeCatalog Data Solutions, Inc.

InventorsDavid Henry Begin, Jr., Aaron Martin Smith, John Cameron Major, Richard Duane Bjorn

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Abstract

Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses are presented for using cross-domain communication to allow manufacturers and other sellers to use cloud/Internet-based products catalog services without sacrificing the search-engine optimization benefit of catalog pages hosted within the manufacturer's domain. The Same Origin Policy used by many browsers may disallow direct communication to the manufacturer's domain for corporate web site and other functions, on the one hand, and an external domain for an efficiently hosted products catalog, on the other. Some embodiments present the use of the JSONP protocol for cross-domain retrieval of a Catalog Widget that is configured to retrieve product catalog information directly from the external domain. In these embodiments, search-engine optimization is furthered by the efficient production of numerous catalog pages that originate from the external domain yet appear to users and search engine crawlers to be within the manufacturer's domain.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, at a first computer system comprising a processor and a memory, from a user's device that is separate from the first computer system, a first request that identifies a particular product, wherein the first computer system is associated with a first Internet domain;
in response to receiving the first request, sending, from the first computer system, to a second computer system that is separate from the first computer system, a second request that identifies the particular product, wherein the second computer system is associated with a second Internet domain that is different from the first Internet domain, and wherein the second computer system comprises a processor and a memory;
receiving, at the first computer system, from the second computer system, detail information that pertains to the particular product and that the second computer system generated in response to the second request;
in response to receiving the detail information, generating, at the first computer system, a product detail web page that includes at least some of the detail information, wherein the product detail web page is associated with the first Internet domain;
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sending the product detail web page from the first computer system to the user's device as a response to the first request.

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