Showing papers on "URL normalization published in 1997"
Patent•
IBM1
TL;DR: Fuzzy URL detection as mentioned in this paper automatically performs a fuzzy search that returns a list of URLs that most closely match what was originally entered into the browser address field, and the user can then select the correct URL from the list and launch the browser to the desired site, or to a directory or file within that site.
Abstract: A Web browser running on a client machine typically includes an address field in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be entered. The URL identifies a particular server (or file) located at a target Web site. If a given URL is entered incorrectly at the Web client, a fuzzy URL detection scheme automatically performs a fuzzy search that returns a list of URLs that most closely match what was originally entered into the browser address field. The user can then select the correct URL from the list and launch the browser to the desired site, or to a directory or file within that site. If the fuzzy search does not reveal a match, the browser may contact a server dedicated to performing a broader fuzzy search. In another alternative, the browser contacts a Web server and the fuzzy search is implemented at the Web server in order to return a particular file.
251 citations
Patent•
28 Oct 1997
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present methods and systems for accessing a network URL through a pre-assigned simplified network address, correlating to the URL, and for displaying the home page having the URL as its address.
Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems for accessing a network URL through a pre-assigned simplified network address, correlating to the URL, and for displaying the home page having the URL as its address. These methods and systems provide easier URL and home page access because persons wanting to access the home page need only input the simplified network address, thereby avoiding the need to know and input the URL character string. The simplified network addresses of the present invention include numbers. Methods are provided for selecting numbers for assignment to URLs. The URL and home page access and display methods of the present invention include: assigning a simplified network address such as a number to a URL, storing the URL and number conversion in a network accessible storage system, inputting the assigned number in a network accessible computer, communicating the inputted number to the storage system, converting the number to the URL, retrieving the home page corresponding to the URL and displaying the home page on the computer. Additionally, the invention provides methods for use in message passing operating systems wherein system level messages to specific objects are intercepted, creating an alias message.
220 citations
Patent•
IBM1
TL;DR: In this article, an apparatus and method for formatting a specified group of related web pages into a single web page allows a user to define a number of selected pages and associated relation criteria for each selected page.
Abstract: An apparatus and method for formatting a specified group of related web pages into a single web page allows a user to define a number of selected pages and associated relation criteria for each selected page. A formatting mechanism collects the URLs for the selected pages and those related pages based on the relation criteria and stores the URLs in a URL container. The formatting mechanism further invokes each web page associated to the URLs contained in the URL container and generates a conglomerate page. The conglomerate web page may include data insert into or referenced in one or more of the selected pages. The conglomerate web page may then be printed using a standard browser print function.
70 citations
Patent•
6 May 1997TL;DR: A method and an apparatus for using a propertied URL ('PURL') comprising three components: a URL address; a descriptive name for the URL; and a property that defines whether the URL represents an image map is described in this article.
Abstract: A method and an apparatus (200) for using a propertied URL ('PURL') comprising three components: a URL address; a descriptive name for the URL; and a property that defines whether the URL represents an image map. The invention maintains an embedded list of PURLs within an application work document, such as a word processing document, presentations graphics document, etc. PURLs can be stored within a document without being used, letting a user work from a predefined list (202) before actual URL hyperlinks have been created within the document. A PURL can be defined by manually entering a URL in a PURL List Dialog (200), or by dragging a URL from a web browser and dropping it on a document. The PURL List Dialog (200) shows a list of all URLs that are stored in the document and provides editing features (208).
9 citations
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1 Oct 1997
TL;DR: A new URL scheme, 'nfs' is defined, used to refer to files and directories on NFS servers using the general URL syntax defined in RFC 1738, "Uniform Resource Locators (URL)".
Abstract: A new URL scheme, 'nfs' is defined. It is used to refer to files and directories on NFS servers using the general URL syntax defined in RFC 1738, "Uniform Resource Locators (URL)".
5 citations
Patent•
IBM1
TL;DR: In this paper, a new uniform resource locator (URL) of file system attachment (FSA) is created on a web browser, which combines features of the URLs of HTTP and "file".
Abstract: A new uniform resource locator (URL) of file system attachment (FSA) is created on a web browser. The new URL combines features of the URLs of HTTP and "file". The new URL first attempts to attach the file system where the data is stored. If the client has access to the data base or the data storage where the requested information is stored, then the web server may be bypassed by using the URL of "file" and use of the server is not required. If the client does not receive access to the data base or the data storage where the requested information is stored, then the URL of FSA will act like the standard URL of HTTP and access data through the server.
2 citations