Patent ID: 8769103

Claim:
A method for using a generic universal resource indicator to retrieve a resource, the method comprising: accessing, by a computer system, the generic universal resource indicator from an application server system that is hosting enterprise resource planning software, wherein: the generic universal resource indicator comprises one or more parameters; and a generic parameter of the one or more parameters is linked with a variable; determining, by the computer system, a value of the variable to use for the generic parameter, wherein: the value for the variable is at least partially based on a stored data field of a record accessed by a user from a plurality of records of a database, the database being accessed via the application server system; creating, by the computer system, a universal resource indicator using the generic universal resource indicator having the generic parameter of the generic universal resource indicator set to the value; and retrieving, by the computer system, from a third-party entity accessed via the Internet, the resource using the universal resource indicator, wherein: one or more attributes of the resource retrieved are contextualized at least partially based on the value; and the resource is presented to the user.