Patent Document ID: 7536391
Application ID: 11133319

Base Claim:
1. A method for URL virtualization to provide a contextually relevant URL to a requesting agent, the method comprising: receiving a request from the requesting agent, wherein the request includes a non-contextual URL; accessing a URL storage area to determine that the non-contextual URL maps to a contextual URL, wherein the contextual URL is more contextually relevant and more human-readable than the non-contextual URL; determining whether the contextual URL is a server-side transfer or a server-side redirect, wherein in a server-side redirect at least one of the non-contextual URL and contextual URL is mapped to an alternative URL; if the contextual URL is a server-side transfer, sending the content to the user browser for display and sending the contextual URL to the user browser for display in the user browser's address bar; and if the contextual URL is a server-side redirect, sending the content to the user browser for display and sending the alternative URL for display in the user browser's address bar.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining a request type and bypassing the virtualization if the request is of a pre-selected type.