Patent ID: 7765179

Claim:
A method for providing an electronic document, said electronic document having multiple versions, each of said versions identified by a creation time-stamp indicating a creation time of said corresponding version, said method comprising the steps of: receiving a request for said electronic document, said request including a requested time-stamp indicating a time associated with a desired version of said electronic document and a requested domain name associated with said time-stamp; identifying as a function of said creation time-stamp and said requested time-stamp an existing version of said electronic document having a creation time corresponding to said requested time-stamp; and identifying an address of said existing version of said electronic document stored on a server corresponding to said requested time-stamp as a function of said requested time-stamp and said requested domain name, wherein a server identified by said requested domain name does not provide said existing version at a time of said request and said identified server has a redirected domain name that is different than said requested domain name.