Patent ID: 9576303
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G06T

Claim:
1. A computer implemented method for determining whether a first region within a web page is in view, comprising: providing, at a first time, at least one test feature in the first region; rendering the web page; at a second time, moving a position of the at least one test feature from the first region to a second region in which the test feature is not viewable; monitoring, using code restricted from accessing a position of the first region within the web page, a behavioural characteristic relating to the at least one test feature during the first time and the second time, wherein a measured value of the behavioural characteristic varies in response to whether the at least one test feature is in view or not in view at a time of measurement; and determining from a variation of the monitored behavioural characteristic between the first time and the second time whether the first region is in view or not in view.