Patent ID: 6865593

Claim:
A method for displaying information, comprising: identifying computer-readable service code at a service site, which code is written in a mark-up language, such that when the code is read by a browser program on a client computer via a network, the code causes the computer to display at least one service page containing service information; selecting at least a portion of the service code for inclusion in a service component containing at least a portion of the service information that corresponds to the selected code; generating a pointer indicating a server at which the service component is accessible, for inclusion of the pointer in host code accessible to the client computer from a host site, which is separate from the service site and is accessible via the network, the host code, when read by the client computer, causing the computer to display a host page containing host information; receiving at the server an invocation of the pointer by the client computer when the client computer accesses the host page; and conveying from the server to the client computer a script command for execution by the browser program on the client computer, the script command having at least a part of the selected service code as an argument, such that responsive to the script command, the client computer displays the service component on the host page.