AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP

Prodigy Communications, LP

Susan A Hall

Duane E Tiemann

A request to access a web page may be received from a user device. The web page includes a dynamic information portion and a static information portion. A filename is assigned to a static file that is associated with the static information portion of the web page. The filename may be formed at least in part from a timestamp associated with the static file. In response to the request, a dynamic file that is associated with the dynamic information portion of the web page may be sent to the user device. The dynamic file references the static file using the filename, and the timestamp included in the filename enables the user device to determine whether the static information portion of the web page is accessible at the user device.

Method, system, and software for transmission of information

A method, system and software for efficient transmission of information having dynamic information and static information are disclosed herein. The method includes dividing at a server location into dynamic and static information. The method further includes receiving a first request and a second request from a user location. The method also includes sending the dynamic information to the user location in response to the first location, and sending the static information to the user location in response to the second request.

A method, system and software for efficient transmission of information having dynamic information and static information are disclosed herein. A networked system having a remote site, a user, and a network is used to transmit information between the remote site and the user. The user sends a request for a set of information having dynamic information and static information, such as a hypertext markup language (HTML) file associated with a uniform resource locator (URL), to the remote site. The remote site, responding to the user's request, determines one or more dynamic portions and/or one or more static portions of the set of information. In one embodiment, a template representative of the set of information is used to aid in the determination of dynamic and static portions. The remote site transmits the one or more dynamic portions to the user, as well as instructions or references for accessing the one or more static portions from a location or file local to the user. If the contents of the static portions are not locally accessible by the user, the user can send a request for the static portions to the remote site. The user uses the transmitted dynamic portions and the references to the static portions stored locally to reconstruct the original set of information. The present invention finds particular application in HTML servers, whereby the illustrated method may be used to decrease the transmission time and/or the bandwidth used for transmitting one or more HTML files associated with a URL or a web site.

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Putnam Valley, NY, United States of America

Susan A Hall