Patent ID: 7743334
Filing Date: 2010-06-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of configuring a web page without changing to another web page, comprising: on a computing device, displaying an instance of the web page in a web browser window, the web page displaying a set of different categories of information; displaying a menu of edit options over top of a portion of the instance of the web page displayed in the web browser window; receiving a user selection in the menu for editing the set of different categories of information being displayed in the instance of the web page; while continuing to display the instance of the web page, submitting an XMLHTTP request to retrieve information for satisfying the user selection in the menu; receiving the information from a server; while continuing to display the instance of the web page, using the information to implement one or more changes to the set of information displayed on the web page without refreshing the web page and without changing to another web page; preserving, using XMLHTTP, the one or more changes to the set of information for a future use in a set of cookies that is retrieved by at—a the computing device such that a retrieval of the web page from the server and the set of cookies provides the updated web page; and without navigating away from the web page, using DHTML to dynamically modify the set of content being displayed in the instance of the web page according to the one or more changes to the set of information.