Network resource access method, product, and apparatus

• US 6,973,505 B1
• Filed: 08/23/2000
• Issued: 12/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MEC Management, LLC (Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota)
• Original Assignee: Eric Schneider
• Inventors: Schneider, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam, Hosain
• Assistant Examiner(s): BRUCKART, BENJAMIN R
• Application Number:
  US09/644,587
• Time in Patent Office: 1,931 Days
• Field of Search: 709/245, 709/246, 709/244, 709/203, 709/227, 709/228, 709/226, 709/223, 705/14, 707/10, 703/313, 715/501.1
• US Class Current: 709/245
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links

Abstract

When a user retrieves a web page from a network and it is determined that the web page can be accessed from the network with a resource location request including a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) having one or more URI components, one or more domain names can be generated from at least one of a one or more URI components and at least a portion of the web page, and the user can be provided a copy of the web page from the network along with the ability to determine whether at least one domain name of said one or more domain names is available for registration.

Claims

1. A method for a user retrieving a web page from a network comprising:

determining that the web page can be accessed from the network with a resource location request including a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) having one or more URI components;

generating one or more domain names from at least one of a one or more URI components and at least a portion of the web page; and

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providing the user with the web page from the network and providing the user with an ability to determine whether at least one domain name of said one or more domain names is available for registration.

2. The method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said generating said one or more domain names from said at least a portion of the web page includes receiving markup language from the web page, said markup language including head information.

3. The method, as set forth in claim 2, wherein said markup language is one of a HTML, DHTML, XML, XHTML, and SGML.

4. The method, as set forth in claim 2, wherein said head information includes at least one of a title information and meta information.

5. The method, as set forth in claim 2, wherein said receiving said markup language from the web page includes retrieving said at least a portion of the web page with at least one of a HTTP HEAD request and HTTP GET request.

6. The method, as set forth in claim 1, further including selecting one or more advertisements corresponding to at least one of a one or more domain names, one or more URI components, and at least a portion of the web page.

7. The method, as set forth in claim 6, wherein said one or more advertisements is selected from at least one table of advertisements.

8. The method, as set forth in claim 7, wherein said at least one table of advertisements is organized by one or more groups and categories.

9. The method, as set forth in claim 7, wherein said at least one table of advertisements can be accessed from an advertisement cache.

10. The method, as set forth in claim 6, wherein a first entity manages the web page and said one or more advertisements correspond to a second entity that represents business competition to said first entity.

11. The method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said at least one domain name is generated from at least one keyword extracted from said at least one of a one or more URI components and at least a portion of the web page.

12. The method, as set forth in claim 1, further including generating one or more keywords and search terms used to assist the user with performing an internet search engine request corresponding to at least one of a one or more domain names, one or more URI components, and at least a portion of the web page.

13. The method, as set forth in claim 12, further including providing the user with an ability to request an internet search engine request from said one of a one or more keywords and search terms.

14. A computer program product comprising computer readable program code stored on a computer readable medium, the program code adapted to execute a method for a user requesting a web page from a network including determining that the web page can be accessed from the network with a resource location request including a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) having at least one URI component, generating one or more domain names from at least one of a one or more URI components and at least a portion of the web page, and providing the user with the web page from the network and providing the user with an ability to determine whether at least one domain name of said one or more domain names is available for registration.

15. A method for a user requesting a web page from a network comprising:

determining that the web page can be accessed from the network with a resource location request including a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) having one or more URI components;

at least one of a generating one or more domain names from said one or more URI components and selecting one or more advertisements from said one or more URI components; and

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providing the user with the web page from the network and providing the user with an ability to at least one of a determine whether at least one domain name of said one or more domain names is available for registration and view at least one advertisement of said one or more advertisements.

16. The method, as set forth in claim 15, wherein said one or more advertisements is selected from at least one table of advertisements.

17. The method, as set forth in claim 15, wherein said at least one table of advertisements is organized by one or more groups and categories.

18. The method, as set forth in claim 16, wherein said at least one table of advertisements can be accessed from an advertisement cache.

19. The method, as set forth in claim 16, wherein a first entity manages the web page and said one or more advertisements correspond to a second entity that represents business competition to said first entity.

20. The method, as set forth in claim 15, wherein said one or more domain names are generated from at least one keyword extracted from said one or more URI components.