Long day, getting longer . . . .

Anyone care to guess what this patent attempts to claim?

(Answer at the end. And, no, it’s not a joke. Hat tip: Electronic Frontier Foundation.)

“What is claimed is: . . . .”*

*Call me old fashioned, but I’ve always had a preference for patents that start with Strunk & White English, not patentese. Such as, “I claim . . . .”

1. In a computer network comprising a plurality of recipient computers having browsers capable of displaying content pages within a frameset, wherein individual ones of the browsers have at least one frame-unloading function operable without activation of a link in a displayed content page to unload a frameset associated with the displayed content page, a method for apparently modifying operation of the at least one frameset-unloading function of a browser, thereby displaying a predetermined second content page upon activation of the at least one frameset-unloading function, comprising the steps of:

receiving a request for a first content page from a recipient computer over the network;

transferring the first content page of the recipient computer after said receiving step;

transferring a frameset page with the first content page to the recipient computer, the frameset page specifying a frameset comprising at least one frame for displaying the first content page, wherein the frameset page includes an unload function configured to execute upon activation of the at least one frameset-unloading function of the browser without the selection of any link on the first content page, whereby the unload function causes the recipient computer to request a second content page;

receiving a request for the second content page from a recipient computer after the second transferring step; and

transferring the second content page to the recipient computer after the second receiving step.

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