Patent ID: 6606653
Filing Date: 2003-08-12
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
In a World Wide Web (Web) communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive display stations for displaying Web pages transmitted to receiving display stations from Uniform Resource Locations (URLs) remote from said stations, said Web pages being linkable with each other through embedded links in source Web pages respectively designating the URLs of target Web pages, a system for updating said embedded links in source Web pages when the URL of a target Web page is moved comprising:means associated with the target Web page of a selected link in a requesting Web page for informing the receiving display station of a requesting page that the target page has moved; means associated with the receiving display station of the requesting page responsive to said informing means for forwarding the URL of the source of the requesting page to the original URL of the target page; means associated with the original URL of the target page for returning the new URL of the target page to the source of the requesting page; and means associated with the source of the requesting page for updating said selected link with the new URL of the target page.