Patent ID: 9129030
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for generating a substitute uniform resource locator, the method comprising: receiving, at a server comprising a processor, from a client device, a request to retrieve a web page at a uniform resource locator corresponding to a tree structure of a web site; responsive to receiving the request and the uniform resource locator being greater than a defined threshold value of characters in length, automatically generating, by the processor without intervention from the client device, the substitute uniform resource locator for the web page; sending, by the processor to the client device, the web page and the substitute uniform resource locator causing the substitute uniform resource locator to be displayed within a location bar of a client web browser rendering the web page, wherein the substitute uniform resource locator is reused in response to a subsequent request to retrieve the web page at the uniform resource locator corresponding to the tree structure of the web site; determining, by the server, a total number of substitute uniform resource locators in use in association with the web site; determining, by the server, that the total number of substitute uniform resource locators in use in association with the web site exceeds a limit; and in response to determining that the total number of substitute uniform resource locators in use in association with the web site exceeds the limit,