Patent ID: 9497255
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of operating a client computer, the method comprising: displaying a graphical banner including an image having a graphic interchange format (gif) on a display of the client computer, the graphical banner including an embedded uniform resource locator (URL); receiving a click on the graphical banner including the image; transmitting a notification URL message based on the URL to a target server, in response to receiving the click; transmitting an HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) request to a Web page server for a Web page to be served on the client computer, in response to receiving the click; receiving the Web page, in response to transmitting the HTTP request; and displaying the Web page on the display of the client computer; wherein the transmitting of the notification URL message to the target server is not in response to transmitting the HTTP request to the Web page server.