Methods and systems for augmenting content displayed on a mobile device
View Patent ↗Techniques for enhancing web content presented with a mobile application are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a contextual content server communicates to a mobile application executing at a mobile computing device, content modification instructions. The content modifications instructions direct the mobile computing device to present modified, or additional, content, generally selected for its relevance to some original content being presented by an application executing at the mobile computing device.
1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a mobile computing device having a touch screen display, web content including an embedded tag;
displaying the web content with the touch screen display of the mobile computing device, the web content including one or more portions of text;
processing the embedded tag embedded with the web content; and
as a result of processing the tag:
generating and sending a content request to a contextual content server, the content request specifying characteristics of the mobile computing device on which the web content is being displayed;
receiving content modification instructions from the contextual content server, the content modification instructions generated based at least in part on the characteristics of the mobile computing device as specified in the content request;
converting one or more words and/or phrases in the text of the web content to interactive links;
detecting a first selection of an interactive link via the touch screen display;
responsive to detecting the first selection of the interactive link via the touch screen display, modifying presentation of the web content via the touch screen display by displaying a content box, overlaying the web content, the content box including a first user interface element that, when selected via the touch screen display, causes i) a content request to be communicated to a content server, ii) content to be received from the content server, and iii) the received content to be presented within the content box, and the content box including a second user interface element that, when selected via the touch screen display, dismisses the content box so that the web content is presented without the overlaid content box;
detecting a second selection of the interactive link via the touch screen display; and
responsive to detecting the second selection of the interactive link via the touch screen display, modifying presentation of the web content via the touch screen display by removing the content box.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein removing the content box comprises closing the content box.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein removing the content box comprises hiding the content box.