US 7,539,776 B1
Dynamic uniform resource locator compression
John E. Saare, Lakeport, Calif. (US); and Luu D. Tran, Santa Clara, Calif. (US)
Assigned to Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, Calif. (US)
Filed on Jun. 17, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/870,605.
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 709—247  [709/246; 709/230] 16 Claims
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1. A method of converting between a uniform resource locator and a dynamically compressed uniform resource locator comprising:
parsing components of the uniform resource locator, wherein parsing the components of the uniform resource locator comprises determining the path, the static query string parameter, and the dynamic query string parameter of the uniform resource locator;
generating a token that uniquely identifies the combination of a path and a static query string parameter of the uniform resource locator;
caching the token in a network device memory, the path, and the static query string parameter; and
appending a dynamic query string parameter of the uniform resource locator to the token to form a compressed uniform resource locator.