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Methods, articles and apparatus for providing a browsing session

  • US 6,675,202 B1
  • Filed: 05/30/2000
  • Issued: 01/06/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of providing a browsing session to a user, the method comprising:

  • (a) providing a tree which relates a plurality of computer-readable items; and

    (b) in response to a user-initiated selection of a first computer-readable item in the tree;

    retrieving the first computer-readable item from a local cache;

    displaying the first computer-readable item;

    retrieving exactly two of the computer-readable items via a computer network, the exactly two of the computer-readable items consisting of a second computer-readable item which is a child of the first computer-readable item in the tree and a third computer-readable item which is a sibling of the first computer-readable item in the tree and had not been retrieved within the browsing session; and

    storing the second computer-readable item and the third computer-readable item in the local cache.

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