Systems and methods for direction of communication traffic
OwnerAlan T. SULLIVAN, Mark Lewyn +1inventors
InventorsAlan T. SULLIVAN, Mark Lewyn, Phillip Gross
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Abstract
An Internet traffic redirection architecture is disclosed that allows for directing of trash traffic to specified sites. The system or method allows a controller, such as an ISP, to benefit from mistyped Internet addresses so that participating partners of the ISP are presented to the customer when the requests a web site that is not found or does not exist. The system decreases lost traffic by means of capturing unresolved “trash” traffic on the Internet and redirecting said traffic to a search engine partner and/or other partners.
Claims21
-20. (canceled)
A method for redirecting Internet communications, the method comprising:
- determining if an Internet communication from a computer at a point of origin includes a malformed request for an Internet address;
- if the communication does not include a malformed request:
- returning to the computer at the point of origin a response from the Internet;
- if the communication includes a malformed request:
- returning to the computer at the point of origin a redirect IP address for a landing page server;
- creating a landing page at the redirect IP address, which includes information that is relevant to the malformed request;
- receiving from the computer at the point of origin a request to connect to the redirect IP address;
- determining if the redirect request is associated with the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP);
- returning to the computer at the point of origin the content of a landing page at the requested redirect IP address only if the redirect request is associated with HTTP;
- wherein all of the steps are performed at the DNS/ISP level of the Internet, and not at the browser/application level of the computer at the point of origin.
A computer system for redirection of malformed Internet communications, the system comprising:
- a server in the DNS;
- a first device that:
- determines if an Internet communication from a computer at a point of origin includes a malformed request for an Internet address;
- if the communication does not include a malformed request:
- returns to the computer at the point of origin a response from the Internet;
- if the communication includes a malformed request:
- returns to the computer at the point of origin a redirect IP address for a landing page server;
- and
- a second device that:
- creates a landing page at the redirect IP address, which includes information that is relevant to the malformed request;
- receives from the computer at the point of origin a request to connect to the redirect IP address;
- determines if the redirect request is associated with the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP);
- and
- returns to the computer at the point of origin the content of a landing page at the requested redirect IP address only if the redirect request is associated with HTTP;
- wherein none of the DNS server, the first device, and the second device is the computer at the point of origin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.