Patent ID: 7353229
Filing Date: 2008-04-01
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for Internet advertising capable of simultaneously maintaining a foreground window and at least one background window and capable of displaying a first browser in a said foreground window for selectively browsing the Internet, said system comprising: (a) a device that interacts with a display to display to a user at least one browser, each said at least one browser within a respective window; (b) a script handler that invokes a post-session procedure in said first browser, said post-session procedure opening a second browser in a said background window such that said opening is free from said background window obscuring any portion of said foreground window while said first browser is simultaneously displayed in said foreground window; and (c) an event handler that receives, from an Internet address, a link to an advertisement and loads said advertisement into said second browser while said second browser is in a said background window, said event handler maintaining said second browser in said background window until the occurrence of a user-initiated action made after said second browser is opened in said background window, said event handler being free from instructions capable of automatically, without user interaction, causing said second browser in said background window to replace said first browser as said foreground window such that said first browser is then maintained in a background window at least partially behind said second browser, during a time interval beginning incrementally before said advertisement has completely finished loading in said second browser and ending at a time incrementally after a user action navigates said first browser to a different web site than that loaded in said first browser when said event handler received said advertisement.