Patent 7805508 was granted and assigned to British Telecommunications Public Limited Company on September, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) includes an identifier part that identifies the URL as being for a resource on a circuit-switched network, a service parameter part and an address part. A terminal reads on the URL and establishes a connection to the resource. Properties of the connection, such as the bandwidth or the connection topology, are determined by values of service parameters in the service parameter part.