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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1998
Shinji Nakai, Yokohama, JP;
Izuru Narita, Yamato, JP;
Hidefumi Suzuki, Kawasaki, JP;
Takayuki Tanaka, Yokohama, JP;
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A content collection part compares the transmission rate (TD) inputted from a transmission rate monitoring part with a threshold value (C−&agr;) in response to a start operation by a user. When a condition TD<(C−&agr;) is satisfied, the content collection part starts an automatic content collection part to perform a background process to collect URL contents which were set up beforehand from a Web server. When the user designates URL contents, the content collection part controls the automatic content collection part to terminate the background process and enters a foreground process to collect the designated URL contents.