Patent ID: 9501460
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A machine-implemented method of detecting and processing invisible elements within a web page, the method comprising: accessing a web page to detect web page elements in the web page; determining that one or more elements of the web page elements are associated with a domain different from that of the web page; obtaining one or more criteria for identifying web page elements which are invisible when displayed; applying the one or more criteria to the one or more elements; determining, based on the applied one or more criteria, that at least one of the one or more elements is invisible; for each of the at least one of the one or more elements determined to be invisible, determining a match in a comparison between rendering data for a first logical tree representation of the web page with the element and rendering data for a second logical tree representation of the web page without the element, for confirming that the element in the first logical tree representation is invisible when displayed; and providing for display a notification of at least one invisible element based on the determined match.