Patent ID: 11899737
Assignee: CHARLES SCHWAB & CO., INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method of identifying reporting information that is automatically generated by a user's browser for at least one server that records and reports such reporting information based on at least one user action performed on a downloaded web page, without causing such reporting information to be generated, the method comprising:
downloading the web page from a download server, the downloaded web page including a plurality of elements;
for an original function associated with an element of the plurality of elements on the web page that provides the reporting information to the at least one server based on a first user action, replacing the original function with a different function that, based on a second user action performed on the downloaded web page, reports to a computer system other than the at least one server to which the reporting information would be generated by the original function, information about the replaced original function, the information comprising an identifier of the at least one server, and the reporting information that would have been provided by the original function so as to disallow the original function from providing the reporting information to the at least one server;
altering, via a link replacer, a link associated with the element on the web page to disable an operability of the element;
simulating a performance of at least one user action with the element on the web page that would have caused the replaced original function to provide the reporting information to the at least one server;
collecting the information about the replaced original function that is reported in response to the simulated user actions; and
displaying the collected reporting information.