| 摘要 |
A technique is disclosed that enables telecommunications endpoints to conveniently share the addressing information—that is, the Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)—of documents that are available on the World Wide Web. In particular, a server is used to provide a bookmark service. The server acts as a repository of tag-URI pairs, in which each tag functions as a shorthand label for the corresponding URI. In the disclosed technique, a first user creates the tag for the intended URI by assigning a keyword to represent the URI as part of a bookmark tag-URI pair that the server stores. The created tag is presumably shorter than the URI that it represents, making the tag more convenient to use. A second user is then able to retrieve and use the URI by specifying the tag to the bookmark server. In essence, the technique of the illustrative embodiment enables the sharing of Web documents by sharing the bookmarks to those documents. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method comprising:
receiving, via a computer network and from a first endpoint associated with a first user, digital data comprising a tag and a uniform resource identifier identifying a document located on a document server at a computer network address corresponding to the uniform resource identifier, wherein the tag is uniquely linked with the uniform resource identifier and with no other uniform resource identifiers such that a request for the tag provides the document by forwarding the uniform resource identifier; upon determining that a second web browser associated with a second endpoint would not be able to reconstruct the document, receiving, via the computer network and from the first endpoint, a parameter describing how to reconstruct the document, wherein the parameter comprises at least one of (i) a password required to retrieve the document from the document server, (ii) state information corresponding to what the first user has selected on a first web browser associated with the first endpoint while the first user is viewing the document via the first web browser, (iii) information contained in a cookie required to retrieve the document from the document server, (iv) a locally executable script associated with the document, or (v) a document object model associated with the document; and upon determining that the tag is unique in an address space for tags: retrieving the document by using the parameter to yield a retrieved document; storing, via a processor, the tag, the retrieved document, and the uniform resource identifier in a folder specific to the first user, wherein the folder is accessible only to the first user and members of a designated organization; receiving, by the processor, a request from the second endpoint associated with a second user who is a member of the designated organization, the request comprising text; and when the text matches the tag, transmitting, by the processor, the uniform resource identifier and the retrieved document to the second endpoint. |
