Patent ID: 8521833

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of obtaining content over a network and displaying the content to a user, the method being implemented in a client computing device in operative communication with a server over the network, the client computing device including electronic storage, a display, and one or more processors configured to execute one or more computer program modules, the method comprising: transmitting a request to the server over the network, the request requesting networked information monitor template; receiving the requested networked information monitor template from the server over the internet, the requested networked information monitor template having been transmitted from the server over the network responsive to the transmitted request, the networked information monitor template comprising: a definition of a viewer graphical user interface within which content in a web browser-readable language may be presented on the display of the client computing device; and a network reference, the network reference comprising a uniform resource locator from which content for the networked information monitor is served over the network; responsive to instructions included in the requested networked information monitor template, presenting the viewer graphical user interface defined by the networked information monitor on the display of the client computing device separate from and outside of any other graphical user interface that includes user controls for specifying a uniform resource locator from which content for the networked information monitor is served over the network; responsive to instructions included in the requested networked information monitor template, transmitting over the network a content request to the uniform resource locator of the network reference, the request being transmitted according to the TCP/IP protocol; receiving content transmitted responsive to the content request, the content having been transmitted according to the TCP/IP protocol; presenting the received content in said viewer graphical user interface defined by the networked information monitor template, wherein the definition of the viewer graphical user interface and/or the content define all controls for enabling a user to specify the uniform resource locator through the viewer graphical user interface.