Remote URL munging business method
First Claim
1. A business method for providing a hosted application service, comprising the step of:
- providing an instruction to be embedded in a customer document wherein said instruction retrieves hosted service information from an application service provider system and integrates said information into said customer document at a user location.
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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.
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1. A business method for providing a hosted application service, comprising the step of:
providing an instruction to be embedded in a customer document wherein said instruction retrieves hosted service information from an application service provider system and integrates said information into said customer document at a user location. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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18. A business method for providing a hosted application service comprising the steps of:
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providing an administrative interface via a computer network;
providing, via said administrative interface, an instruction to be embedded in a customer document, and providing a hosted service in response to said instruction.
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24. A business method comprising the step of:
providing, upon request of a user, hosted application service information from a remote location, said information being integrated into a customer document at a user location such that it appears to the user that the information came from a network document of said customer.
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