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System and method for predictive caching of information pages

  • US 5,878,223 A
  • Filed: 05/07/1997
  • Issued: 03/02/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/07/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer server capable of being connected to a network through a network connection, the network connected to one or more other servers and one or more clients, the computer server comprising:

  • a central processing unit and one or memories with one or more pages of information, one or more of the pages being requested pages when requested by one or more of the clients through the network connection;

    a preference table in one or more of the memories that is updated when one or more of the requested pages are requested, the preference table associating a preference factor with one or more predicted pages with respect to one or more of the requested pages;

    a prediction process that selects one or more of the predicted pages using the respective preference factor for one or more requested pages; and

    a sending process that sends the selected predicted pages to one or more of the clients that requested the respective requested page.

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