Patent ID: 8225403

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for providing information a user to help prevent spoofing, comprising: displaying content in a small screen; wherein the content that is displayed within the small screen is associated with a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that identifies a source of the content; determining a domain name that comprises a subdomain followed by a second-level domain followed by a top-level domain that is associated with the content directly from text of the URL that identifies the source of the content; determining how much of the domain name fits within a predetermined space of a security element that is a visual element that identifies the source of the content by displaying at least a portion of the domain name; automatically shortening the domain name to fit within the predetermined space that prioritizes including characters of the second-level and top-level domains of the domain name within the predetermined space over the subdomain such that characters in the subdomain are removed in the shortening before removing characters from the second-level and top-level domains and wherein characters within the second-level domain are removed in the shortening before removing characters from the top-level domain; creating the security element that includes a display of the shortened domain name such that the shortened domain name shows the source of the content; and displaying the security element including the shortened domain name within the small screen.