Method and apparatus for securely displaying and communicating trusted and untrusted internet content

Abstract

A method and apparatus for securely displaying and communicating trusted and untrusted internet content via a web browser is described. In a preferred embodiment, the invention is an electronic marketplace system in which auctions related content is displayed in one window of a customer's web browser while item-related content is displayed in a second window of the customer's web browser, such that the auction-related content and the item-related content are substantially prevented from substantially interacting. The invention further provides a method and apparatus for communicating (predetermined information between multiple documents opened in multiple web browser windows, where the documents are served from multiple domains.

I claim: 
     
         1 . One or more computer readable media having stored thereon a plurality of instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing device, causes the one or more processors to perform the steps comprising:
 receiving a first set of content from a first source;   storing the first set of content on a first domain;   receiving a second set of content from a second source; and   storing the second set of content on a second domain different than the first domain;   such that if the first and second sets of content were transmitted to a web browser supporting a cross-frame security feature and displayed in two separate browser views, the web browser would prevent the first and second sets of content from substantially interacting.