Integrated internet system for translating logical addresses of internet documents to physical addresses using integrated service control point

• US 5,751,961 A
• Filed: 01/31/1996
• Issued: 05/12/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hanger Solutions, LLC (IP Investments Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Inventors: Smyk, Darek Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): Meky, Moustafa M.
• Application Number:
  US08/594,749
• Time in Patent Office: 832 Days
• Field of Search: 395/200.01, 395/200.02, 395/200.03, 395/200.09, 395/200.11, 395/200.16, 395/200.2, 395/200.3, 395/200.31, 395/200.47, 395/200.48 , 395/200.57, 395/200.6, 370/401, 370/466, 370/474, 370/397, 379/219, 379/220, 348/13
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames name-to-address mapping H04L61/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/301 Name conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0045 involving hybrid, i.e. a mixture of public and private, or multi-vendor systems

Abstract

An ISCP gateway connects an ISCP to the Internet. Internet call processing records ("CPRs") are generated and stored in a database associated with the ISCP. These Internet CPRs translate logical addresses in the URL standard to physical worldwide Web ("WWW") addresses in the URL standard. Hyperlinks Web documents are modified to include logical addresses. Browsers send requests containing logical addresses associated with hyperlinks to the ISCP gateway, which forwards the request to the ISCP. The ISCP executes a corresponding Internet CPR and returns a physical address to the Web browser. The Web browser then requests a document identified by the physical address in a normal fashion.

Claims

1. An integrated Internet system, comprising:

one or more Internet documents having one or more logical addresses;

means for displaying said one or more Internet documents;

means, responsive to selections of said one or more logical addresses, for sending requests to an Integrated Service Control Point ("ISCP");

said ISCP including means to translate said one or more logical addresses to one or more physical addresses; and

means for returning said one or more physical addresses to said display means.

2. An integrated Internet system comprising:

a computer running a Web browser application;

Web documents having "hyperlinks" to logical addresses, said logical addresses corresponding to an Integrated Service Control Point ("ISCP");

said ISCP including;

a) a translating means, responsive to said logical addresses, for translating said logical addresses to physical addresses; and

b) means for returning said physical addresses to said computer.

3. A system according to claim 2, wherein said ISCP translating means includes one or more Internet call processing records ("CPRs").

4. A system according to claim 2, wherein said ISCP includes a Multi-Services Application Platform ("MSAP").

5. A system according to claim 2, further comprising an ISCP gateway, comprising:

a) an Internet server; and

b) an ISCP interface.

6. A system according to claim 5, wherein said Internet server interfaces to the Internet via a HTTP/TCP/IP protocol and interfaces to the ISCP interface via a common gateway interface.

7. A method of browsing documents on the worldwide Web, comprising the steps of:

selecting a logical hyperlink address at a computer;

sending a message including said logical hyperlink address to an ISCP in response to said selecting step;

translating said logical hyperlink address into a physical hyperlink address; and

transmitting said physical hyperlink address to said computer.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising the step of requesting a Web document from said physical hyperlink address.

9. An Internet call processing record, for execution by a processor, comprising:

processing instructions for responding to a logical Internet address;

processing instructions for translating said logical Internet address into a physical Internet address; and

processing instructions for generating a routing instruction including said physical Internet address.