Patent ID: 6457060
Filing Date: 2002-09-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for displaying a home page on a display screen associated with a remote client-side computing device operating a browser program and being coupled to a network server, said method comprising:(a) identifying, at the remote client-side computing device, an alias URL that corresponds to the home page to be displayed on the display screen; (b) downloading alias data from the network server to the remote client-side computing device; (c) converting, within the remote client-side computing device, the alias URL to a resulting URL in accordance with the downloaded alias data; (d) requesting the home page from the network server using the resulting URL; and (e) thereafter displaying the home page received from the network server on the display screen of the remote client-side computing device, wherein the downloaded alias data pertains to a plurality of alias URLs to be stored in a data storage of the remote client-side computing device, and wherein said downloading (b) of the alias data from the network server is performed prior to use of the downloaded alias data by said converting (c).