Contextual Browser Controls for Secure Account Actions

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Solution Overview

Problem

Web documents often fail to preserve the original context of the source document when visitors navigate to connected webpages, and managing access to resource accounts during browsing sessions involves timing delays and information disconnects, making it difficult for users to recognize and interact with relevant content and perform account-related actions directly from the webpage.

Innovation Solution

A browsing enhancement module for web browsers that performs contextual scanning to identify tradeable objects in web documents, generating supplementary display data with user interface elements for account-related actions based on permission levels and authentication status, allowing users to interact with resource accounts in real-time without leaving the webpage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional hyperlinks are used to navigate to connected webpages, then informational scope is expanded, but contextual connection to the source document is lost

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformational scopeVSAvoidcontextual connection

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent embeds interactive account management interfaces directly within the web document viewing context. User interface elements for account actions are nested inside the document display area, allowing users to access account functionality without leaving the current webpage context. This maintains contextual connection while expanding functional capabilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary layer between the web document and the account management system. A browsing enhancement module acts as a mediator that detects tradeable objects in the document, determines available account actions, and presents relevant user interface elements. This intermediary enables contextual account interactions without requiring direct navigation away from the source document.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If users navigate to separate webpages for account actions, then account management functionality is accessed, but timing delays and information disconnects occur

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccount management accessVSAvoidtiming delays

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary detection of tradeable objects and determination of available account actions while the user is viewing the web document. The browsing enhancement module proactively identifies relevant account functionality and prepares user interface elements before the user needs to perform any actions. This eliminates timing delays by having the interface ready in advance within the current context.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges the web document viewing interface with the account management interface into a single integrated environment. User interface elements for account actions are displayed concurrently with the web document content, allowing users to perform account management tasks without navigating away. This combination eliminates information disconnects and timing delays by maintaining both contexts simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Productivity

If user interface elements are displayed for account actions, then real-time interaction is enabled, but authentication security requirements must be met

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvereal-time interactionVSAvoidauthentication security

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic user interface elements that respond to user authentication status. The browsing enhancement module detects authentication state and dynamically enables or disables account action interfaces accordingly. This dynamic behavior allows real-time interaction for authenticated users while maintaining security by preventing access for unauthenticated users, thus balancing productivity with reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20250298850A1System and method for controlling access to secure data records in a web browsing session

Publication Date: 2025.09.25 THE TORONTO DOMINION BANK

AI summary

A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: identifying one or more tradeable objects based on performing a contextual scan of document data of a first web document; graphically presenting supplementary display data with webpage content of the first web document, wherein the graphically presenting the supplementary display data comprises displaying, for each identified tradeable object, user interface elements corresponding to available account actions for the tradeable object determined based on permission levels for the account actions and inputted user authentication information; detecting user selection of a user interface element corresponding to a first account-related action in connection with a first one of the identified tradeable objects; determining that further authentication is required for initiating performance of the first account-related action; and responsive to successful further authentication of the user, generating a request to process performance of the first account-related action.