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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael L Spilo, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39520031 ; 395616 ; 364D / ; 364D / ;
Abstract
A method and system for improving local area network throughput and thereby reducing traffic on the network hardware, allowing more workstations to be serviced by fewer servers. A further method for creating a bi-directional distributed processing system for cooperatively improving the local area network performance. In the preferred embodiment, a method is presented allowing workstations on a network to cache locally data normally retrieved from a network server or host machine.