Patent ID: 7328405
Filing Date: 2008-02-05
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A web browser program, embodied in a computer-readable medium, executable by a client computer connectable to server computers by a computer network, the web browser program automatically reconfiguring chrome of a user interface to the web browser, the web browser program comprising: a content display program configured to receive content data from a current web site of a current server computer, and to cause information representative of the content data to be displayed on a content portion of a browser display of the client computer; and a chrome display program configured to display chrome that corresponds to chrome specifiers on a chrome portion of the browser display of the client computer, wherein: the chrome display program is further configured to receive chrome specifiers associated with the current web site, wherein the chrome specifiers cause the chrome display program to add a new control element to the chrome being displayed on the chrome portion of the browser display while maintaining at least one control element of the chrome that was displayed prior to the addition of the new control element, the new control element is configured in response to the current web site being displayed to invoke functionality corresponding to functionality offered by the current web site being displayed, the new control element is defined by the current server computer serving the current web site being displayed, and the new control element is based on chrome specification information directly provided, to the client computer, by the current server computer serving the current web site being displayed.