Patent ID: 7152203

Claim:
A method for independently updating individual display elements of a displayable Web page on a client device, the method comprising: responsive to a first page request originating at a first browser window on the client device and directed to a first Web server at a first network address, receiving from the first Web server Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) code specifying the individual display elements of the displayable Web page and including at least one script code; automatically interpreting the at least one script code in the browser to prepare a proxy window on the client device and transmit a second page request for a second, non-displayable phantom Web page from the proxy window to a second Web server at a second network address; displaying in the first browser window of the client device, the displayable Web page assembled from the individual display elements of the displayable Web page downloaded from the first Web server; responsive to the second page request for said non-displayable phantom Web page, receiving at the client device, from the second Web server at the second network address, at least one second Web page element that is related to at least one of the individual display elements of the displayable Web page; assembling without displaying the non-displayable phantom Web page in the proxy window from the at least one second Web page element; and while continuing to display the displayable Web page in the first browser window, updating said at least one of the individual display elements of the displayable Web page using said at least one second Web page element associated with said non-displayable phantom Web page assembled but not displayed in the proxy window.