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Methods and systems for preemptive and predictive page caching for improved site navigation

  • US 20030088580A1
  • Filed: 11/07/2001
  • Published: 05/08/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for a first computer to request documents from a second computer, comprising the steps of:

  • responsive to a first user action, sending a first request for a first document to the second computer;

    receiving the first document sent by the second computer responsive to the first request;

    identifying all references to second documents in the received first document;

    independently of any user action, automatically sending a second request for at least one of the second documents referred to by the identified references in the first document;

    receiving the at least one second document requested by the second request and storing the received at least one second document in a storage that is local to the first computer, and responsive to a user request for at least one of the second documents, attempting first to service the user request from the local storage and sending a third request to the second computer for the at least one of the second documents only when the at least one of the second documents is not stored in the local storage.

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