Browser URL and content preloading based on autonomic collaboration
First Claim
1. A method of loading Internet content onto the computer of a user belonging to a group of users connected over a network providing Internet access and working on a common project, said method comprising:
- identifying a set of members of the group as predictor users;
identifying a set of members of the group as audience users;
monitoring the Internet requests of the set predictor users; and
broadcasting the content resulting from the requests of the set of predictor users to the computers of the set of audience users.
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Abstract
In a LAN environment, which provides access for multiple users to the Internet, clients (predictors) are selected for identifying Internet content, by their requests, which would be of interest to a larger audience, and then this content is “pushed down” to the caches of an audience of clients. In so selecting content there is a recognition of a shared intellectual direction (e.g. a joint effort) that exists to encourage interest in similar material. This cache “library” is particularly directed to mobile users who work unconnected at times and may lack the time or background to select and pre-load the library.
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14 Claims
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1. A method of loading Internet content onto the computer of a user belonging to a group of users connected over a network providing Internet access and working on a common project, said method comprising:
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identifying a set of members of the group as predictor users;
identifying a set of members of the group as audience users;
monitoring the Internet requests of the set predictor users; and
broadcasting the content resulting from the requests of the set of predictor users to the computers of the set of audience users. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. Apparatus comprising:
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a plurality of user systems;
an Internet server connected to retrieve content from the Internet in response to requests from user systems;
a network connecting the user systems with the Internet server to support transfer of requests and content therebetween;
stored data at said Internet server identifying a group of user systems as a common interest set thereof, identifying preselected user systems of the set as predictor systems and preselected user systems of the set as audience systems;
logic residing in said Internet server for identifying requests for content from the predictor systems and broadcasting the content to the audience systems. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10)
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11. A product comprising:
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a computer usable medium having computer readable program code stored therein, the computer readable program code in said product being effective to;
identify user systems connected to an Internet server;
receive data identifying user systems into sets of predictor and audience user systems;
monitor Internet content requests from the predictor user systems; and
initiate the broadcast of content requested by predictor user systems to audience user systems. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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