Patent ID: 7895523

Claim:
A method for obscuring only supplemental audio-visual web content on a web page, comprising: detecting a reference to supplemental web content in requested markup language; reducing an audio-visual quality of the supplemental web content while allowing the supplemental web content with the reduced quality to be executed in its entirety on a client, wherein the reducing includes specifying a full-quality version of the supplemental web content to be reduced, and specifying a reduction in the audio-visual quality of the supplemental web content; rendering the requested markup language with the reduced quality supplemental web content; and displaying the entirety of the reduced quality supplemental web content and the original quality requested web page content, wherein an original layout of the requested web page is preserved; and restoring the full-quality version of the supplemental web content in the rendered markup language based on a prompt by a user, wherein the reducing step comprises removing animation from the supplemental web content.