METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CORRECTING THE SPELLING OF INCORRECTLY SPELLED UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATORS USING CLOSEST ALPHABETICAL MATCH TECHNIQUE

摘要

A method for identifying correct uniform resource locators from incorrectly spelled uniform resource locators using closest alphabetical match technique includes the steps of typing a uniform resource locator address into a web browser, querying, with the browser (4), querying, with the browser, a domain name server (6) for a corresponding web page, receiving an invalid response with the web browser, requesting, through the web browser, the domain name server to perform a closest alphabetical match search to find an entry/name in a DNS table alphabetically closest to the typed-in URL address and to provide back to the browser that address and a range of immediately surrounding addresses, and displaying results of the closest alphabetical match search with the browser. A computer readable storage medium containing program instructions for performing the method and a system for identifying the correct URLs is also provided.