Patent ID: 7987509
Filing Date: 2011-07-26
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for generating canonicalized keys, the method comprising: receiving by the computer, a request from a requestor for a canonicalized key, the request comprising a first uniform resource address (URA) for locating a corresponding web page, the first URA comprising an authority and a query string of query parameters, the first URA consisting of any one of a uniform resource identifier (URI) or a uniform resource locator (URL); obtaining by the computer, a key generating policy for generating the canonicalized key; transforming the query string by the computer to produce a transformed query string based on said obtained key generating policy, wherein the transforming consists of reordering the query parameters, removing query parameters or adding query parameters; and generating by the computer, the canonicalized key based on the transformed query string, wherein the generated canonicalized key comprises a second URA comprising the authority and the transformed query string.