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Pre-resource checking before file download

  • US 20040002367A1
  • Filed: 06/28/2002
  • Published: 01/01/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for determining whether to receive information, the apparatus having associated therewith a consumable resource that has a current remaining amount, the apparatus comprising:

  • a data collection receiving module operable for receiving, over a network, a collection of data having a size, receiving of the data collection causing the apparatus to consume the resource and to correspondingly modify the current remaining amount;

    a data length module for determining a size of the collection of data;

    a resource pre-checking module for determining the current remaining amount; and

    a resource sufficiency module for determining an amount of the resource consumed for each of a predetermined amount of data received and for determining, based on said determined amount of the resource consumed and the size of the collection of data, an amount of the resource that would be consumed in receiving the collection of data, for use by the resource sufficiency module to cause the data collection receiving module to receive the collection of data only if the current remaining amount exceeds, by at least a predetermined threshold, said determined amount of the resource that would be consumed.

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