Patent ID: 7386614

Claim:
An Internet-based web addressing system, the system comprising: a first web site located at a first symbolic uniform resource locator (“URL”) address, wherein the first symbolic URL address includes a first domain name; a second web site located at a second symbolic URL address, wherein the second symbolic URL address includes a second domain name that is different than the first domain name; a plurality of respective web servers respectively associated with the first and second web sites, that communicate on the Internet and respectively provide access to the first and second web sites in response to the receipt of access requests formatted as symbolic URLs; a respective web server tool for each of the web servers; a URL resolution database accessible to the web servers; a plurality of correlation records in the URL resolution database; a URL correlation tool operable with the correlation records; and a symbolic path information correlation tool for correlating symbolic path information tag data in the correlation records; wherein the web server tool is operable with the URL resolution database to convert each received access request formatted with a symbolic URL including a domain and a path name that is not physically present on a respective web server to a non-symbolic URL address that is physically present on the respective web server.