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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2008
Collin Jackson, Seattle, WA (US);
Jiahe Wang, Redmond, WA (US);
Collin Jackson, Seattle, WA (US);
Jiahe Wang, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A secure cross-domain communication system and method for facilitating secure communication between a website having a web mashup and websites having content that is to be placed on the web mashup. Embodiments of the system and method set the document domain variable of the mashup website and the websites to facilitate the secure communication. Mediator frames are used as an intermediary between a top frame (containing the web mashup) and untrusted frames (containing the website content to be included in the mashup). The type of setup technique used is dependent on the number of websites being used in the mashup. Once the secure communication is established, data exchange between the top frame and the untrusted frame is dependent on the types of services that that the browser supports.