Appeal No. 2003-0428
Application 09/116,564
other documents and objects. See page 1 of Appellant’s
specification. There is a need for a method and apparatus for
relocating hypertext documents that makes the adjustments
required for both relative and absolute reference locators in the
hypertext document. See page 3 of Appellant’s specification. In
general, Appellant’s invention facilitates the relocation of
hypertext document and objects referenced by hypertext items
through the use of Modifiable Uniform Reference Locators (MURLs).
Figure 1 illustrates a flow diagram of the invention. A parser
110 analyzes a document 100 to identify modifiable reference
locators 115. An example modifiable reference locator 115 is
shown as REF 1 in the document 100. An address determinator 130
determines a new reference locator 135, for each modifiable
reference locator 115. In figure 1, REF 2 is the new reference
locator 135 corresponding to the object referenced by REF 1. A
reference replacer 120 replaces the modifiable reference locator
REF 1 in document 100 with the new reference locator REF 2,
forming a modified document 100'. If the object 150 that is
referenced by REF 1 is not yet moved to REF 2, a data transferrer
140 transfers the object 150, or a copy of the object 150, to REF
2, as shown in figure 1 as object 150'. See page 5 of
Appellant’s specification. Each modifiable reference locator
2
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