Patent ID: 7814083

Claim:
A method of supporting access to information in a system connected to a user client through a network, the method comprising: (a) receiving at a server an access application download request from the user client; (b) transmitting via the server the requested access application to the user client, the access application serving to replace a first address bar existing in a web browser installed in the user client with a second address bar, wherein the access application, when hosted on the user client, is configured to analyze information input by the user into the second address bar to determine which of a plurality of types the information is, wherein the plurality of types of information includes at least URL, keyword, file path, where: if the information input into the second address bar corresponds to a URL, the access application hosted on the user client allows the user client to access a node having the corresponding URL, if the information input into the second address bar corresponds to a file path name, the access application hosted on the user client searches for and outputs a file corresponding to the file path name from the user client, and if the information input into the second address bar corresponds to a keyword, the access application hosted on the user client transmits the keyword to the sever; (c) receiving at the server keyword information among information input to the second address bar by a user, the keyword information being text information not directly including access information; and (d) transmitting via the server at least one of address information corresponding to the keyword information and search result information on the keyword information to the user client.