The system IBM employs to achieve this, the hyperspeech transfer protocol (HSTP), is similar in principle to the hypertext transfer protocol that provides links from one conventional website to another.

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If you want to get a little more technical, take a look at whether the website you are using to transmit information is using HTTPS -- hypertext transfer protocol secure.

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The Web refers to the graphical portion of the Internet built around the hypertext-transport protocol created by physicist Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.

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