Patent ID: 7454479

Claim:
A method in a computing system for processing a URL comprising: receiving from a computing device an input URL; providing a plurality of teleport entries, each teleport entry having a parameter directive, some of the teleport entries including a designation of a language and/or culture; determining whether the input URL includes a designation of a language and/or culture; responsive to determining that the input URL does not include a designation of a language and/or culture, generating a destination URL that identifies content that is addressed by the input URL by identifying a teleport entry that matches the input URL and renaming a parameter of the input URL to a different name in the destination URL in accordance with the parameter directive of the matching teleport entry; responsive to determining that the input URL includes a designation of a language and/or culture: determining whether there is content that is addressed by the input URL and that is dependent on the language and/or culture designation in the input URL; and responsive to determining that there is content that is addressed by the input URL and that is dependent on the language and/or culture designation in the input URL, generating a destination URL that identifies this content by identifying a teleport entry that matches the input URL along with its language and/or culture designation and renaming a parameter of the input URL to a different name in the destination URL in accordance with the parameter directive of the matching teleport entry; and sending the generated destination URL to the computing device with an indication that the destination URL is a redirection of the input URL.