Methods, systems, products, and devices for processing DNS friendly identifiers

• US 9,141,717 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2002
• Issued: 09/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MEC Management, LLC (Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota)
• Original Assignee: ESDR Network Solutions LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Schneider, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): MIRZA, ADNAN M
• Application Number:
  US10/248,068
• Publication Number:
  US 20080016233A1
• Time in Patent Office: 4,666 Days
• Field of Search: 709/220, 709/228, 709/223, 709/245, 709/217, 709/219, 709/221
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• 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 61/3015 Name registration, generation or assignment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]

Abstract

When a request having a keyword is received, a domain name having the keyword can be generated and a network resource corresponding to the domain name can be requested wherein the network resource is adapted to extract the keyword from the domain name. In turn, when a request having a first domain name is received, a second domain name having the first domain name can be generated and a network resource corresponding to the second domain name can be requested wherein the network resource is adapted to extract the first domain name from the second domain name.

Claims

1. A method for obtaining search results comprising:

one of receiving at least one keyword having an original form which is not a domain name structure resolvable by a domain name server or intercepting at least one keyword having an original form which is not a domain name structure resolvable by a domain name server;

generating a domain name, adapted to be resolved by the domain name server, having said original form of said at least one keyword as at least a portion of said domain name;

accessing a network resource corresponding to said domain name by resolving said domain name in the domain name server;

in response to accessing said network resource corresponding to said domain name, extracting, at said network resource, said at least one keyword from said domain name;

performing a search of content in a database based on said at least one keyword extracted at said network resource; and

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obtaining at least one search result corresponding to said search.

2. A method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said at least one keyword is received or intercepted from at least one of an internal automation, external automation, activation of a hyperlink, network resource redirection, or input.

3. A method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said one of receiving said at least one keyword or intercepting said at least one keyword comprises receiving the at least one keyword as an input from a user interface element.

4. A method, as set forth in claim 3, wherein the receiving the at least one keyword comprises receiving the at least one keyword via at least one of a browser location field, text box, command line, speech to text interface, optical recognition interface, or magnetic recognition interface.

5. A method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said domain name is generated by using at least one of a function, procedure, program, script, rewrite rule, resolver, configuration parameter, search list, host table, client, server, autosearch, or nameserver.

6. A method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said domain name is generated by performing a string manipulation operation upon at least a portion of said domain name and the at least one keyword.

7. A method, as set forth in claim 6, wherein said performing said string manipulation operation comprises performing at least one of a prepending, appending, rotating, concatenating, truncating, or reversing at least a portion of said domain name with respect to said at least one keyword.

8. A method, as set forth in claim 1, further comprising determining whether said at least one keyword is one of a registered navigation keyword or a resolvable navigation keyword.

9. A method, as set forth in claim 8, further comprising contemporaneously obtaining search results corresponding to said at least one keyword and determining whether said at least one keyword is one of a registered navigation keyword or a resolvable navigation keyword.

10. A method, as set forth in claim 8, further comprising at least one of displaying registration information or determining whether said at least one keyword can be back-ordered as a navigation keyword, when it is determined that said at least one keyword is at least one of a registered navigation keyword or resolvable navigation keyword.

11. A method, as set forth in claim 8, further comprising generating a registration form when it is determined that said at least one keyword is not a registered navigation keyword.

12. A method, as set forth in claim 1, further comprising determining whether said at least one keyword is available for registration as one of a trademark, telephone number, or advertising placement.

13. A method, as set forth in claim 12, further comprising generating a registration form when it is determined that said at least one keyword is available for registration as one of a trademark, telephone number, or advertising placement.

14. A method, as set forth in claim 12, further comprising at least one of displaying registration information or determining whether said at least one keyword can be back ordered as one of a trademark, telephone number, or advertising placement, when it is determined that said at least one keyword is not available for registration as one of a trademark, telephone number, or advertising placement.

15. A method, as set forth in claim 1, further comprising contemporaneously obtaining search results corresponding to said at least one keyword, and determining whether said at least one keyword is available for registration as one of a trademark, telephone number, or advertising placement.

16. A method, as set forth in claim 1, further comprising generating from said at least one keyword, one or more keywords and one or more domain names when said at least one keyword is extracted.

17. A method, as set forth in claim 16, further comprising determining whether said one or more domain names is available for registration.

18. A method, as set forth in claim 16, further comprising determining whether said one or more keywords is available for registration as one of a navigation keyword, trademark, telephone number, or advertising placement.

19. A method, as set forth in claim 1, further comprising contemporaneously processing at least one of a navigation request, registration request, WHOIS request, back-order request, prefix request, suffix request, command request, resolution request, redirection request, search request, identifier registration request, commerce request, subscription request, dialing request, messaging request, conferencing request, vendor request, service request, login request, status request, authorization request, or reference request, with said at least one keyword when said at least one keyword is extracted.

20. A method, as set forth in claim 1, further comprising determining whether said at least one keyword is available for registration as a search engine ranking.

21. An apparatus adapted to obtain search results comprising:

a network resource;

at least one computing device including at least one processor, the at least one computing device adapted to;

at least one of receive at least one keyword having an original form which is not a domain name structure resolvable by a domain name server or intercept at least one keyword having an original form which is not a domain name structure resolvable by a domain name server;

generate a domain name, adapted to be resolved by the domain name server, having said original form of said at least one keyword as at least a portion of the domain name;

submit the domain name for resolution by the domain name server;

wherein, in response to resolution by the domain name server, the network resource is adapted to extract the at least one keyword from said domain name, and obtain at least one search result, the search result being based on performance of a search of content in a database based on the at least one keyword extracted at said network resource.

22. The apparatus as set forth in claim 21, wherein the at least one keyword is received or intercepted from at least one of an internal automation, external automation, activation of a hyperlink, network resource redirection, or input.

23. The apparatus as set forth in claim 22, wherein the at least one keyword comprises at least a portion of an input received from a user interface element.

24. The apparatus as set forth in claim 21, wherein the domain name is generated by using at least one of a function, procedure, program, script, rewrite rule, resolver, configuration parameter, search list, host table, client, server, autosearch, or nameserver.

25. The apparatus as set forth in claim 21, wherein the domain name is generated by performing a string manipulation operation upon at least a portion of the domain name and the keyword.

26. The apparatus as set forth in claim 21, wherein the at least one processor is adapted to execute instructions to cause the computing device to perform at least one of a prepending, appending, rotating, concatenating, truncating, or reversing at least a portion of the domain name with respect to the at least one keyword.

27. The apparatus as set forth in claim 21, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to execute instructions to cause the computing device to contemporaneously obtain search results corresponding to the at least one keyword and determine whether the at least one keyword is one of a registered navigation keyword or a resolvable navigation keyword.

28. The apparatus as set forth in claim 21, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to execute instructions to cause the computing device to present a display of registration information, determine whether the at least one keyword is one of a registered navigation keyword or a resolvable navigation keyword, and determine whether the at least one keyword can be back-ordered as a navigation keyword when it is determined that the at least one keyword is at least one of a registered navigation keyword or a resolvable navigation keyword.

29. The apparatus as set forth in claim 21, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to execute instructions to cause the computing device to determine whether the at least one keyword is one of a registered navigation keyword or a resolvable navigation keyword and generate a registration form and when it is determined that the at least one keyword is not a registered navigation keyword.

30. The apparatus as set forth in claim 21, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to execute instructions to cause the computing device to determine whether the at least one keyword is available for registration as one of a trademark, telephone number, or advertising placement.

31. The apparatus as set forth in claim 30, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to execute instructions to cause the computing device to generate a registration form when it is determined that the at least one keyword is available for registration as one of a trademark, telephone number, or advertising placement.

32. The apparatus as set forth in claim 21, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to execute instructions to cause the computing device to contemporaneously obtain search results corresponding to the at least one keyword, and determine whether the at least one keyword is available for registration as one of a trademark, telephone number, or advertising placement.

33. The apparatus as set forth in claim 21, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to execute instructions to cause the computing device to generate from the at least one keyword, one or more keywords and one or more domain names when the at least one keyword is extracted.

34. The apparatus as set forth in claim 33, wherein the at least one processor is further adapted to execute instructions to cause the computing device to determine whether the one or more domain names is available for registration.