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US 8,413,043 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for web forwarding
AssigneeNetwork Solutions, LLC
InventorsChun-Ming Lu, Vincent M. Lee
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for forwarding a web address to another web address is presented. A web forwarder receives a request destined to a first web address including at least a domain name. The web forwarder then determines a forwarding uniform resource locator (URL) that corresponds to the domain name and redirects the request to a second web address that corresponds to the forwarding URL.
Claims13
A method for managing domain names, comprising:
- storing a plurality of user accounts in a computer-readable data store, each of the plurality of user accounts being associated with a plurality of domain names belonging to the user;
- storing a plurality of forwarding address records in the data store, each forwarding address record indicating a forwarding address for one of the plurality of domain names;
- electronically receiving account information from a customer;
- authenticating the customer as an owner of one of the plurality of user accounts;
- presenting the list of domain names associated with the customer's user account, the domain names being owned by the customer;
- receiving, from the customer, a selection of one of the plurality of domain names;
- receiving, from the customer, a specification of a forwarding address to which the selected domain name is to be forwarded;
- updating the data store to associate the selected domain name with the forwarding address;
- receiving, from a user other than the customer, a request for a requested web address, the requested web address including the selected domain name;
- retrieving the specified forwarding address from the data store based on at least a portion of the requested web address;
- and
- forwarding the request to the specified forwarding address.
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A method for managing a plurality of domain names owned by a user, the method comprising:
- electronically presenting a list of domain names owned by the user;
- receiving, from the user, a selection of one of the domain names;
- receiving, from the user, a first uniform resource locator (URL) to which the selected domain name is to be forwarded in response to a request from any of a plurality of users, the plurality of users including at least one user that is not the owner of the selected domain name;
- and
- modifying a customer database to associate the first URL with the selected domain name.
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A system comprising:
- a customer server comprising a processor and configured to communicate with at least one customer over a network;
- a customer database in communication with the customer server, the customer database comprising a processor and storing:
- a plurality of customer records associating customers with domain names owned by the respective customers;
- and
- a plurality of forwarding address records, each forwarding address record associating a domain name owned by a customer with a forwarding address specified by the customer to which a request from a user other than the customer that includes the associated domain name should be forwarded;
- and
- a data generator to update domain name data stored on at least one host based on the forwarding address records stored by the customer database.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.