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Method and apparatus to restrict free hyperlinking by internet content distributors to web sites of original content producers

  • US 6,772,208 B1
  • Filed: 11/04/1999
  • Issued: 08/03/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/04/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for controlling access to a content producer server comprising the following steps:

  • providing an initial uniform resource identifier, independent of an actual location of a file at the content producer server, to a content distributor server;

    mapping the file, at the content producer server, to the initial uniform resource identifier at the content producer, wherein the mapping is used by the content producer server to service a request for the file from a client producer server using the provided initial uniform resource identifier from the content distributor;

    responsive to a given event other than a change in location of the file at the content producer server, modifying the initial uniform resource identifier, independent of the actual location of the file at the content producer server, on the content distributor server to from a modified uniform resource identifier; and

    remapping the file, at the content producer server, to the modified uniform resource identifier, wherein the remapping is used by the content producer server to service a subsequent request for the file from a client using the modified uniform resource identifier from the content distributor server.

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