Patent ID: 8418078
Filing Date: 2013-04-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method to display a pop-up window when a user leaves a website, the method including: setting a client-side variable with a value when a web browser performs an interaction with the website, the interaction with the website including loading a web page from the website into the web browser; causing the pop-up window to be loaded, but not displayed, when the web page is unloaded from the web browser, the pop-up window programmed to immediately sleep for a predetermined length of time and to check the value of the client-side variable after the predetermined length of time; and causing the previously loaded pop-up window to be displayed on a display based on determining that the value of the client-side variable did not change during the predetermined length of time, no change in the value of the client-side variable to indicate that the web browser stops interacting with the web site.