Patent 7908317 was granted and assigned to Oracle on March, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A computer-implemented method can be used to support Uniform Resource Locator (URL) compression. Such a method can comprises the steps of receiving a Web request associated with an original URL from a client by a Web component; saving the original URL in a database; generating a compression key in a compressed URL; getting the original URL from the database using the compression key; and responding to the client.