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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1998
Bruce Martin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Peter F. King, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Bruce V. Schwartz, San Mateo, CA (US);
Lawrence Michael Stein, San Jose, CA (US);
Openwave Systems Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
Aliasing techniques that permit flexibly linking to remotely located resources are disclosed. The aliasing techniques are used by a browser application to link to a remote resource located on a network (e.g., the Internet) when the location of the remote resource is initially unknown or likely to be changed based on events external to the browser application. For example, the external events can include: relocation of the remote resource, use of a different device, user or carrier service to access the remote resource, or selection of different service levels. In one embodiment, a browser application executes on a wireless remote computing device and couples to a network gateway via a carrier network. The aliasing techniques are provided by sending alias information from the network gateway to the browser application, and then having the browser application form an alias table and store the alias table in the wireless remote computing device. The wireless remote computing device can be any of a wide range of devices that have wireless and computing capabilities, including a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant and a portable general purpose computer.