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Distributing data over a communications network for display

  • US 6,704,773 B1
  • Filed: 11/13/2001
  • Issued: 03/09/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/30/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a computer network including a plurality of servers logically connected to one another and to a plurality of client systems a method of delivering data from a host server to a client system, the method comprising:

  • detecting a first period of idle time of the client system during which the client system has not been used to browse the network;

    establishing contact between the client system and the host server during the first period of idle time;

    preloading data selected by the host server to the client system in response to information communicated by the client system which identifies data already cached at the client system;

    detecting a second period of idle time at the client system; and

    presenting the data at the client system upon detecting the second period of idle time.

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