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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsMichael D. Smith, Eric Hennings, Christine Walpole McKee
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The integrity of uniform resource locator (URL) references within web sites are maintained when changes occur in the locations where resources referenced by URLs are stored. A Referential Preservation Engine (RPE) maintains a database in which the location of web site documents and reference information are stored and updates various URL hyperlink references contained in the web pages on the site so that users can locate documents that have been moved to new storage locations. The RPE can also update links to external web sites by communicating with an RPE running on each external site. The RPE on the external site keeps track of the movement of linked documents on the sites and passes information pertaining to the new location of the linked documents to the local site, whereupon the links on the local web site pages are updated to reflect the new storage locations. The RPE also can track usage of a user's favorite sites and/or documents that are stored in an Internet browser and update the URL references for these favorites when the resources they are mapped to are moved (or renamed).
A method for maintaining the integrity of a hyperlink included within a document stored on a local server, said local server having an address, the hyperlink providing an original uniform resource locator (URL) reference that is mapped to an original location of a linked resource stored on a remote server, the linked resource having been moved from the original location on the remote server to a new location so as to break the hyperlink, the method comprising the steps of:
A method for updating a uniform resource locator (URL) reference stored in a client computer browser, the URL reference mapping to an original location of a linked resource on a server, the linked resource having been moved from the original location to a new location, the method comprising the steps of:
A method for maintaining hyperlink integrity on a web site, the web site comprising a plurality of web page documents stored on a server, each document having a content and an original uniform resource locator (URL) reference mapping to an original location on the server where the document is stored, the method enabling a client to retrieve a document after the document is moved from its original location to a new location, comprising the steps of:
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