Kevin L Gilbertson

US Patent:

20130104038, Apr 25, 2013

Filed:

Oct 19, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/656230

Inventors:

Siddhartha Goyal - Boston MA, US
Kevin Gilbertson - Blaine MN, US

Assignee:

TINYURL, LLC - Blaine MN

International Classification:

G06F 17/27

US Classification:

715271

Abstract:

A method for automatically shortening one or more Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) via a plug-in or functionality embedded in an operating system. The method may allow a user to initiate a request to shorten the one or more URLs via a command without clicking on the plug-in. An event listener may be initiated to identify the one or more URLs present in a temporary storage location or passed as an argument to an application based on a protocol scheme. The browser plug-in may invoke a call to a first server for shortening the one or more URLs to one or more shortened URLs. Further, the method may replace the one or more URLs in the temporary storage location with the one or more shortened URLs and may return the one or more shortened URLs to the user or pass a shortened URL as an argument to an application upon the launch of the application.

Address:

5460 157 Way Ct N, Hugo, MN 55038

VIN:

4T4BF3EKXBR115771

Make:

TOYOTA

Model:

CAMRY 4-DOOR XLE SEDAN

Year:

2011