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Method and apparatus for encoding and using network resource locators

  • US 6,081,842 A
  • Filed: 03/17/1998
  • Issued: 06/27/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/02/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of accessing an information resource on a computer network, comprising:

  • storing an information resource on a host computer at a node of a computer network and providing a resource specifier string representing a full network resource locator for the information resource;

    providing a set of uniquely identifiable tokens for representing specific character sequences, each token representing a specific character sequence;

    creating a compressed resource locator by replacing character sequences in the resource specifier string with corresponding tokens representing those character sequences;

    providing the compressed resource locator to a storage medium of a transmission unit of a telephone device at a service provider site for subsequent transmission;

    transmitting the compressed resource locator from the telephone device to a user'"'"'s telephone/terminal device at a user site;

    establishing a data communication session over the computer network between the user telephone/terminal device and the host computer;

    in response to the compressed resource locator, requesting the information resource from the host computer by transmitting a signal related to the compressed resource locator from the user'"'"'s telephone/terminal device to the host computer; and

    at the host computer, using said signal to retrieve the information resource and to transmit it over the computer network to the user'"'"'s telephone/terminal device.

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