Patent ID: 8990928
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04B,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for displaying a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), comprising: receiving a URL; normalizing the URL, wherein normalizing the URL includes standardizing an encoding of a character, wherein the character is contained in the URL; determining a first element of the URL; determining a second element of the URL; determining that the first element of the URL is more important than the second element of the URL; and displaying the URL, wherein displaying the URL includes emphasizing the first element of the URL, wherein the first element of the URL includes a domain and wherein emphasizing the first element of the URL includes displaying the first element of the URL using a first font attribute and wherein emphasizing the first element of the URL includes determining a domain name associated with a numeric address, wherein the numeric address is associated with the first element of the URL, and displaying the domain name; and wherein displaying the URL includes displaying a first portion of the second element of the URL using a second font attribute and eliding a second portion of the second element of the URL, and wherein eliding the second portion of the second element of the URL includes displaying an ellipsis instead of the second portion of the second element of the URL.