System and method for searching a global communication system using a sub-root domain name agent

• US 6,625,594 B1
• Filed: 01/18/2000
• Issued: 09/23/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: With1Click, Inc.
• Original Assignee: With1Click, Inc.
• Inventors: Oachs, Stephen W., Rolland, Steven C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam, Hosain T.
• Application Number:
  US09/484,598
• Time in Patent Office: 1,344 Days
• Field of Search: 707/1-4, 707/10, 707/100, 707/102, 709/203, 709/217-219
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

A method and system for searching the World Wide Web through a sub-root domain name agent connected to a proprietary URL within a hierarchical directory system are provided. Sub-root domain name agents are keywords or combinations of words connected as a prefix to a proprietary URL, continuously linked together in a hierarchical chain that interfaces with a searchable index directory. Within the hierarchy, sub-root domain name agents direct the user to either a hub site for refining the search or directly to a proprietary Web site.

Claims

1. A method of revealing web site address in response to a computerized search for sites on a global communication system comprising:

a. storing a plurality of web site addresses in a hierarchical directory system on a server;

b. linking the server to the global communication system, accessible to an end user to perform the computerized search;

c. wherein the server is connected to the end user through the global communication system by way of a sub-root domain name agent, formed as combination of a prefix and a domain name, the prefix comprising a list of key search words, the domain name comprising a host name; and

wherein the server further comprises a plurality of processors, each of the processors storing a subset of the alphabet for the hierarchical directory system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the sub-root domain name agent is developed for the end user by entering a search query on a browser search locator bar.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the sub-root domain name agent is formed of a plurality of terms as prefixes, each such term separated from an adjacent term if any by a “

dot”

, and a domain name.

4. A search system coupled to a global communication system, the search system comprising:

a. a server storing a hierarchical directory system;

b. means for coupling the server to the global communication system;

c. wherein the hierarchical directory system is accessible via the global communication system using a sub-root domain name agent, formed of a combination of a prefix and a domain name, the prefix comprising a list of key search words, the domain name comprising a host name; and

wherein the server further comprises a plurality of processors, each of the processors storing the hierarchical directory in an alphabetically accessible structure.

5. The search system of claim 4, wherein the means for coupling the server to the global communication system comprises a router.

6. The search system of claim 4, further comprising a domain name system computer coupling the router to the server.

7. The search system of claim 4, wherein the sub-root domain name agent comprises a search term prefix appended to a universal resource locator.

8. The search system of claim 4, wherein the sub-root domain name agent comprises a plurality of search term prefixes, each such term separated from an adjacent term if any by a dot, the prefixes appended to a universal resource locator.

9. The search system of claim 4, further comprising a plurality of directories within the hierarchical directory system.

10. The search system of claim 9, further comprising an alphabetized index within each of the plurality of directories.