Patent ID: 8533291
Filing Date: 2013-09-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for protecting a publicly viewable web client reference to network accessible data, comprising: receiving a request from a client at a server for a server-side resource, the request being triggered without user input upon loading of a page having a component that needs to access the server-side resource; generating a token for referencing the server-side resource at the client using a resource-mapper, the token representing an arbitrary path identifier specific to a process or a session related to the request, wherein the arbitrary path identifier is interpreted by the resource mapper to obtain information related to the server-side resource, the resource-mapper identifying the server-side resource that is to service the request from the client, wherein the token is generated at the server as a random value of alpha-numeric characters and represents a name in a name-value pair, the value of the name-value pair is mapped to the server-side resource, wherein a length of the generated token varies based on a level of security set for the server-side resource; and returning the generated token to the client, wherein the generated token is used as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to map to the server and the corresponding server-side resource by the resource-mapper, the random value of alpha-numeric characters being viewable at the client as the URL and interpreted by the resource-mapper to enable rendering of the content for the component at the client, such that the random value of alpha-numeric characters protect identification information of the server-side resource.