Patent ID: 7970936

Claim:
In a Web communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving display stations for displaying received Web documents accessible from database sources on the Web, a method for simplifying the URLs displayed for each received Web document comprising: accessing Web documents through service providers for said receiving display stations responsive to user requests; accessing requested Web documents from remote Web database source servers, responsive to service provider requests; defining the URLs for said accessed Web documents to include a URL domain section and an automatically generated URL path portion within the database source; and converting, in said service provider, said defined URLs of said accessed Web documents to include a domain section specifying the service provider's domain and a path portion within said service provider's domain simpler and shorter than the URL path portion; reconverting said converted URLs, in said service provider, back to the defined URLs; wherein Web document requests directed to said converted URLs will respectively be transmitted through the service provider to the database sources on the Web; and enabling said service provider to charge a user a fee for activating said apparatus for converting a defined URL.