| 摘要 |
<p>A system that provides users of both fixed and wireless Internet devices, a method of entering numbers (S2) instead of the text characters of Internet Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and other Internet identifiers to access Internet resources and functions, such as Web sites (S3), e-mail services, individual documents or files, location services, etc. When the user enters a WebNum (S2), the digits of the WebNum are sent to a database on a system that is accessible over the Internet. The database maps the WebNum back to a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) (S4), which contains the hostname in the Internet domain name structure. This would subsequently be resolved through the Internet Domain Name System (DNS) to an IP address to identify the IP address of the Web site. The cell phone provider or WID network provider would then retrieve the home page of the Web site over the Internet, to return content to the cell phone or WID display (S6).</p> |
