Patent ID: 9547725
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: displaying a web page to a user, the web page being displayed in a browser window on a display associated with a computing device, the web page comprising a plurality of layers, at least one of the layers having a visual cue to indicate another layer of the web page corresponding to a video having an aspect ratio, the video being displayed in a display area of the layer; monitoring, via the computing device, user interactions with the browser window to determine when the video is to be played, said monitoring comprising interpreting said user interactions to be interactions with the layer associated with the video; automatically analyzing, via the computing device, the display area of the layer allocated to the video, and detecting the aspect ratio of the video; and adjusting, via the computing device and based on the detected aspect ratio of the video, the display area of the layer occupied by the video, the adjusting of the display area occurring without reloading the video or the web page.