Abstract: A universal electronic resource denotation, request and delivery system allows a user to locate information on a distributed computer system or network such as the Internet by knowing or guessing a short mnemonic alias of an electronic resource without the user having to know the physical or other location denotation such as the universal resource locator (URL) of the desired resource. The system hardware includes a client computer, a local server, a central registry server, a value added server, and a root server.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 7, 1995
Date of Patent:
June 9, 1998
Assignee:
Netword LLC
Inventors:
Matthew Edelstein, Samuel Bergman, Donald B. Rubin