International Business Machines Corporation
Generating a rich hyperlink within a messaging environment

Abstract:

Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for generation of a rich link associated with a uniform resource locator (URL) to share information within a messaging system independent of access capabilities of a receiver computing device. The method includes one or more processors identifying a task of multimedia of a video sharing application of a computing device. The method further includes identifying a URL. The method further includes extracting textual data of a web resource corresponding to the URL. The method further includes converting the URL to a rich URL based at least in part on the textual data and a distinct string of characters including the URL. The method further includes transmitting the rich URL to a receiving computing device.