Patent ID: 6081842
Filing Date: 2000-06-27
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method of accessing an information resource on a computer network, comprising:storing an information resource on a host computer at a node of a computer network and providing a resource specifier string representing a full network resource locator for the information resource;providing a set of uniquely identifiable tokens for representing specific character sequences, each token representing a specific character sequence;creating a compressed resource locator by replacing character sequences in the resource specifier string with corresponding tokens representing those character sequences;providing the compressed resource locator to a storage medium of a transmission unit of a telephone device at a service provider site for subsequent transmission;transmitting the compressed resource locator from the telephone device to a user's telephone/terminal device at a user site;establishing a data communication session over the computer network between the user telephone/terminal device and the host computer;in response to the compressed resource locator, requesting the information resource from the host computer by transmitting a signal related to the compressed resource locator from the user's telephone/terminal device to the host computer; andat the host computer, using said signal to retrieve the information resource and to transmit it over the computer network to the user's telephone/terminal device.