Method of providing internet pages by mapping telephone number provided by client to URL and returning the same in a redirect command by server
Patent 5812776 Issued on September 22, 1998. Estimated Expiration Date: September 22, 2015. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
This invention relates to methods for providing access to network servers. In particular, the process described in the invention includes client-server sessions over the Internet involving hypertext files. In the hypertext environment, a client views a document transmitted by a content server with a standard program known as the browser. Each hypertext document or page contains links to other hypertext pages which the user may select to traverse. The user may also access a hypertext page by providing a conventional telephone number or other descriptor. The server maps such a telephone number or descriptor to a target page identifier using a translation database and automatically directs the client to retrieve the desired page.
Other References
Ramanathan, Srinivas, et al., "Architectures for Personalized Multimedia," IEEE Multimedia, vol. 1, No. 1, Computer Society, pp. 37-46, 1994
Choudhury, Abhijit K., et al., "Copyright Protection for Electronic Publishing Over Computer Networks," IEEE Network, The Magazine of Computer Communications, vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 12-20, May 1995
"maX.500--a Macintosh X.500 Directory Client", contents of WWW Web Site http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/ldap/max500/ as of Jul. 7, 1997, Sep. 6, 1995
"Directory Server 1.0 for Windows NT and Unix", contents of WWW Web Site, http://www.merchant.netscape.com/netstore/servers/directory.html as of Jul. 7, 1997
"X.500 Implementation Description Page", Contents of WWW Web Site, http://www.internic.net/projects/x500catalog/impdescrs/hpdistdir.html as of Jul. 7, 1997, Aug. 16, 1993
"New host for internet commercial site index", Menefee, Craig, Newsbytes, Nov. 9, 1994, p. 15
"Content in context: the future of SGML and HTML", Michalski, Jerry, Release 1.0, Sep. 27, 1994, EDventure Holdings Inc., V94, n9, p. 13
"SuperHighway Acess eases Internet entry", Phillips, Ken, PC Week,V11, n43, Siff-Davis publishing Co., p. 3, Oct. 31, 1994
"Wide area information servers", Buhle, Digital Systems Journal, Professional Press Inc., V16, n5, p. 13, Oct. 1994
"Commercialization of the Internet opens gateway to Interpreneurs", Metcalfe, InfoWorld, InfoWorld publishing Co., v16, n32, p. 44, Aug. 8, 1994
Netscape Products, "Open and Secure Internet Software" Internet, Sep. 18, 1995, pp. 1-2
Merchant System: Overview, "Netscape Merchant System Data Sheet" Internet, Sep. 18, 1995, pp. 1-3
Lou Montulli, Electronic Mail to multiple recipients of the www-talk list (www-talk@www10.w3.org) on "Session Tracking" (omi.mail.www-talk, Apr. 18, 1995)
PR: Digital IDs for Open Market's Secure WebServer, "Press Release, VeriSign, Inc. to Provide Digital IDs for Open Market's Secure WebServer" Internet, Sep. 18, 1995, pp. 1-2
PR: Online Security Solutions, "VeriSign, Inc. Adds the Missing Component to Online Security Solutions" Internet, Sep. 18, 1995, pp. 1-2
The SSL Protocol, Internet, Sep. 18, 1995, pp. 1-18
IStore, "Netscape Istore Data Sheet" Internet, Sep. 18, 1995, pp. 1-2
Peterson, Larry L., "A Yellow-Pages Service for a Local-Area Network", ACM Proceedingsof the ACM SIGCOMM 87 Workshop, ACM Press, 1988, pp. 235-24
September 22, 2015. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
