Method and apparatus for correcting a uniform resource identifier

Patent 6094665 Issued on July 25, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date:

September 18, 2017. 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.

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Inventors

Application

No. 933183 filed on 09/18/1997

US Classes:

715/531, Text382/309, EDITING, ERROR CHECKING, OR CORRECTION (E.G., POSTRECOGNITION PROCESSING)382/310, Correcting alphanumeric recognition errors382/321, Optical (e.g., OCR)715/530Edit, composition, or storage control

Examiners

Primary: Hong, Stephen S.
Assistant: Stevens, Roberta

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Mayer; Marc R.

International Class

G06F 017/27

Abstract

A computer program which causes a computer to correct a uniform resource identifier (URI) in a noisy source document. The program finds and corrects potential errors within a URI before turning the URI into a hyperlink. Testing the corrected URI is done by seeking the resource described by the corrected URI. Testing the URI also includes parsing the URI, identifying potential syntax errors within each portion of the URI, creating alternative URI combinations, and prioritizing the alternative URI combinations. Syntax errors corrected include incorrect protocol, incorrect or missing component separator characters, incorrect spacing, incorrect or missing dot character, and alphanumeric character replacement.