Patent ID: 8131820

Claim:
A method of delivering information across a computer network, comprising: receiving, at a web server, a first request from a client program for user-selected information; determining, at the web server, if a provider-selected message has been previously transmitted to the client program within a time period determined by the web server; if, based on the determining step, it is determined the provider-selected message has been previously transmitted to the client program within the time period, then transmitting, from the web server, the user-selected information to the client program for display; and if, based on the determining step, it is determined the provider-selected message has not been previously transmitted to the client program within the time period, then: a) transmitting, from the web server, the provider-selected message to the client program for display, the provider-selected message being configured to cause the client program to transmit a second request for the user-selected information; and b) receiving, at the web server, the second request; and c) transmitting, from the web server, in response to the second request, the user-selected information to the client program for display.