Patent ID: 8671340

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for visualizing an age of content in a Web page, the computer-implemented method comprising executing instructions in a computer system to perform the operations of: identifying one or more elements in the Web page for which age is to be tracked based upon data contained in the Web page identifying the one or more elements for which age is to be tracked; for individual elements in the Web page for which age is to be tracked, periodically calculating the age of the one or more elements and storing age data describing the age of the one or more elements; receiving a request for the Web page from a client device; in response to receiving the request for the Web page from the client device, utilizing the age data for the one or more elements in the Web page to generate a modified Web page which, when rendered by the client device, will cause the calculated age of the one or more elements to be presented visually by causing the one or more elements to be displayed in association with colored regions corresponding to the ages of the one or more elements; and returning the modified Web page to the client device in response to the request.