Abstract: The present invention provides a method for automatically updating bookmarks stored by a web browser when the bookmarked URL is invalid and a redirect to an alternate URL is specified. In accordance with the present invention, a web page author places redirect markups in the HTML or XML file associated with a particular URL. When this redirect markup in the HTML or XML file is received by the web browser, the user of the browser is given the option of replacing the existing bookmarked original URL with the redirect URL. Further, if desired, the bookmark, now containing the redirect URL, may also be modified to include the bookmarked original URL, so that, if desired, the user of the browser can try to reach the original URL if the redirect URL is no longer functional.

Abstract: A method for constructing a URL, cookie, and database query mapping is disclosed. The method is employed within a content delivery system comprising a Web server, an application server and a database management system (DBMS), wherein the Web server is coupled for receiving a URL request destined for an original servlet in the Web server. The method comprises redirecting the URL request to a wrapper servlet, which includes statements for extracting the URL string and cookie information, and assigning a job identification system variable containing the URL string and cookie information to the redirected URL request. The redirected URL request is then forwarded to the original servlet in the form of an HttpServletRequest. The HttpServletRequest is then communicated to the application server, which issues at least one query destined for an original database connection API the DBMS. The at least one query includes the job identification system. The query is then redirected to a wrapper database connection API within the DBMS, which includes statements for recovering the URL string and cookie information from the at least one query and constructing a URL, cookie, and database query mapping.

Abstract: To authenticate an Internet web site, the web site is verified each time it is accessed by a user browser (12). On receipt of a page request, the web site generates a web page into which is embedded a URL site address or other unique identifier. A cookie, link to an image or java applet or similar, for execution of the verification process may also be embedded or may be resident on the user browser. At the user, the browser instantiates the cookie, link to image or applet and extracts the URL site address or unique identifier which is sent, together with user ID to a verification server (16). The server performs comparison, comparing the URL address or unique identifier with a record of the correct identifier and/or URL address. Based on the comparison, an approval status is generated and sent back to the browser. This is displayed as a graphic in the browser or in any other way. The graphic includes an animated portion to increase security. The graphic also includes a user generated code or challenge which is stored on the verification server and which is sent back to the user upon successful authentication.

Abstract: A method of automatically creating “Favorites” or “Book Marks” in an Internet web browser involves monitoring the browser and producing a bookmark indication if it is (1) communicating with a web site and (2) it is being used in a predefined pattern of activity at the web site. When these conditions are met, the universal resource locator (URL) of the web site is captured in response to the bookmark indication. The URL is then stored in the Favorites list of the browser. An identifying title is also stored with the URL in the Favorites list. In one embodiment, the method further includes compiling a database of URLs and categories of information to which the URLs related. Then the captured URL is compared to the database to determine a category for the URL so that it is stored in the Favorites list in a folder identified with the category.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the display of and for resolving special characters in URL's URI's and Email ID's is implemented. In response to the entry of an URL during a browsing session, the web browser retrieves the URL and displays on the address bar a message read from a server. This message can be in addition to or in lieu of the URL. This allows the display of meaningful information on the address bar of a Web browser, that otherwise displays a URL that is usually cryptic. Also, in response to an entry of a URL/URI/Email ID with non-permitted special characters (such as space), the web browser converts them into a standard format by removal of the non-permitted special characters and fetches the appropriate file.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for automatically bookmarking a URL specified by a web author when a user of a web browser attempts to bookmark a different page or when a process updates bookmarks based on either the HTTP 301 return code or the HTML meta refresh markup. In accordance with the present invention, a web page author places an “alternate bookmark directive” in the page (HTML or XML format) associated with a particular URL. When this “alternate bookmark directive” in the HTML or XML file is received by the web browser or by a process updating bookmarks, and the user of the browser attempts to bookmark the URL being viewed or the process is verifying a bookmark, then either the browser is instead directed to bookmark the alternate URL from the tag or the process modifies the bookmark being verified using the alternate URL from the tag. In a preferred embodiment, the bookmarked page being viewed or verified is an internal web page of the website, and the alternate bookmark directive directs the browser to bookmark the URL for the home page of the website or the verification process to update the bookmark to the URL for the home page of the website.

Abstract: A URL page (13) is printed by a computing system. When a reference to a URL address is dragged and dropped upon a print icon (16), the URL page is accessed from the Internet. The URL page is then printed on a printer. When the URL page is accessed and printed, the URL page is not displayed to a user of the computing system. Also, when a reference to the URL address for the URL page is dragged and dropped upon a display apparatus (10) for the computing system, a special icon representing the URL page address is created on the display apparatus. Upon a user performing a function to activate the special icon, the URL page is printed.

Abstract: The present method for selective web caching comprises the steps of generating a table, the table comprising a URL, a time of last access and a time stamp of a web page, the table further comprising a URL, time of last access and time stamp of elements found on the web page; when a request for a web page is made, checking the requested web page's URL and time stamp and URL and time stamp of the requested web page's corresponding elements with the URL and time stamp listed in the table to determine whether any modification has been made; and selectively downloading in a cache only those elements which are deemed to have been modified.

Abstract: An Internet archive service is disclosed that provides persistent access to Web resources. Time-stamped Uniform Resource Locators ("URLs") that identify Web resources are combined with URL redirect techniques to create an Internet archive service to make the Internet persistent. The present invention provides persistent Web access, without requiring all web servers to directly handle time-stamps in a URL. A user enters a dated URL, for example, using a web browser, which is transmitted to a web server. The Web server receives the URL (containing a time stamp, a relative time-stamp or a variable time-stamp), and retrieves the correct Web page(s) from its own archive, or redirects the user to a predefined Internet archive site. An archive finder may optionally be provided to identify the best Internet archive service where the desired resource has been archived. The Web server interprets the extracted URL in accordance with the selected time stamp format. The present invention ensures that a time-stamped reference to any Web resource refers to the desired material.

Abstract: Content change such as a move of a URL indicating an address of a content, and deletion of a content, is economically managed to provide a user, who browses the content, with services at the time of content change. A content change registration program provided in a computer such as a server is invoked at the time of content change, and records a change history record in a content change management table. When a requested content is not found in a database, a WWW server program invokes a content change reference program, which refers to the content change management table, converts a specified URL into a URL after move, and returns the URL after move to the WWW server program. If the specified URL has been deleted, the content change reference program returns a URL of content, which displays a deletion message, to the WWW server program. In the case of a computer like a proxy server interposed between a client computer and a server computer, when receiving a content request from the client, a content change management table obtained from the WWW server is referred to. After that, a specified URL is converted into a URL after move. Then, the URL after move is transmitted to the WWW server. If the specified URL has been deleted, a response message informing that the content requested by the client has been deleted is sent.

Abstract: A business method for providing a remotely hosted service by an application service provider (ASP) wherein the hosted service is seamlessly integrated into a customer document at a user location. One embodiment of a system for providing the business method includes a combination of novel JavaScript technology and URL munging. For example, an administrative interface may facilitate the insertion of a line of static JavaScript code into a customer's Web page. The code may interpret a munged URL and pass the munged URL to an ASP server. An ASP server may extract session variables that were encoded in the munged URL. The ASP server may generate a dynamic JavaScript program that displays the hosted service, e.g., a hosted site search engine. The hosted service may thereby be written directly into the customer's Web page so that the Web user is not aware that the service is hosted remotely.

Abstract: A method for entering and facilitating the input of an Internet Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address into a URL address window including the steps of providing an interactive device for connecting to the Internet via a web browser having a URL address window, where the interactive device includes an operating system which employs a cursor and a cursor device for communicating position commands to the operating system, connecting to the Internet using the interactive device and the web browser, positioning the cursor over the URL address window, receiving a cursor position command, validating the cursor position command, displaying an enlarged text window, entering a desired URL address into the enlarged text window, inserting the entered URL address into the URL address window and engaging the interactive device so as to cause the web browser to be communicated with the URL address.

Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for managing a bookmark folder are provided. In an embodiment of the invention, when a user accesses a Web page using an embedded link from a displayed bookmarked Web page, the user may, if so desires, replace the bookmarked Web page by simply bookmarking the accessed Web page. The replacement is done automatically. In another embodiment of the invention, when a user wants to bookmark a Web page, the URL of the Web page is compared with the URLs of all bookmarked Web pages. If the URL of one of the bookmarked Web pages is similar with the URL of the Web page to be bookmarked, the user may, again if so desires, replace the bookmarked Web page by the bookmark of the new page. Similarity may be determined by user defined rules such as subject matter or differences in URL branches.

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To distribute a load inside a system without requiring a load distributor or the like. SOLUTION: When the requests of access to contents CCC on a Web server 201 are concentrated (P1 and P2), loads measured by server load measuring parts 202 and 212 are compared. When the load of a Web server 211 is lighter and the frequency of access to the contents CCC is highest, a contents transfer part 205 moves the contents CCC to the Web server 211 of the light load (P3 and P4). At such a time, a URL redirection part 204 changes the URL of the contents CCC after move. In such a case, when access to the contents CCC is requested (P5), the URL redirection part 204 changes the URL in the access request to the URL of the contents CCC after move and sends the access request after that change to the Web server 211. COPYRIGHT: (C)2002,JPO

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and system for handling document or content off-loading from a document processing system to a large repository. The content of a document or any attachment attached to the document are detached and physically transferred to a remote repository server and replaced by a placeholder text. The text contains information e.g. about who archived the document, the time/day of archiving, and the original attachment filename. In particular, the placeholder text itself is a URL link, for instance a Notes URL link hotspot richtext element. That is, when clicked, a browser is opened, displaying the URL associated with the URL link.

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide persistent web access without necessitating direct processing of a timestamp of a URL by all web servers. SOLUTION: A URL(Uniform Resource Locator) with the timestamp to identify web resources makes the Internet persistent by creating Internet archive service by being combined with URL redirect technology. In this invention, the persistent web access is provided without necessitating the direct processing of the timestamp in the URL by all web servers. A user inputs, for example, a URL with a date by using a web server and transmits it to the web server. The web server receives the URL (including the timestamp, a relative timestamp or a variable timestamp), retrieves a collect web page (or web pages) from the present archive or redirects the user to a predefined Internet archive site. This invention ensures that a desired material can be collated by reference with the timestamp to optional web resources. COPYRIGHT: (C)2002,JPO

Abstract: A communication system for retrieving web content is disclosed. A downstream proxy server (105) receives a URL request message from a web browser (103), in which the URL request message specifies a URL content that has an embedded object. An upstream proxy server (107) receives the URL request message from the downstream proxy server. The upstream proxy server selectively forwards the URL request message to a web server (109) and receives the URL content from the web server, wherein the upstream proxy server forwards the URL content to the downstream proxy server and parses the URL content to obtain the embedded object prior to receiving a corresponding embedded object request message initiated by the web browser.

Abstract: A server provides compensation, such as insurance, to a user who purchases merchandise by electronic commerce. The server provides a compensation granting portal site having a first URL on the Internet. The server includes a URL rewriting unit for receiving a second URL of a web page of another server upon a user's request, and rewriting the second URL to be linked to the first URL and transmitting the rewritten second URL to the user.

Abstract: A system for accessing servers of acceptable domains and acceptable URLs by a computer of a user on the Internet. The system includes a web browser configured to have contained therewithin the acceptable domains and a database listing at least one of the acceptable URLs. The web browser has a requested URL enterable therein by the user, either directly or by way of a homepage thereof, and once entered, determines if the requested URL is an acceptable domain, and if so, accesses the server associated with the requested URL, and if not, determines if the requested URL is listed in the database, and if so, accesses the server associated with the requested URL, and if not, displays on the computer of the user a “requested URL is not accessible” message.

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reliably access a Web site even when an URL (uniform resource locator) has been transferred. SOLUTION: When an automatic correction device 12a of a URL connection destination attempts to access a Web site 19 according to information recorded in an information recording medium such as a CD and a DVD, the device transmits URL data indicating URLs of Web sites recorded in the information recording medium or site identification data related to the Web sites to a URL management server 18 managing the URLs of the Web sites. The URL management server 18 retrieves the managed URLs of the Web sites, checks whether the URL corresponding to the URL data or the site identification data has been transferred, and when it has been transferred, returns updated URL data indicating a URL at a transfer destination. Then, the automatic correction device 12a of the URL connecting destination accesses the Web site 19 according to the returned updated URL data and, for example, issues a request for distributing information related to the contents recorded in the information recording medium. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO