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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1997
Jeffrey R. Jackson, Forest Grove, OR (US);
Scott B. Blum, Beaverton, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Response time is improved by a method and apparatus for pre-fetching application data over a network. A request for application data, such as Internet data, is received. The request is transmitted to a transparent network proxy, which issues requests over a communications network to fetch the requested data. The requested application data are received by the proxy and forwarded to a client layered service provider, which supplies the data to the application. If additional application data is received by the proxy, that data is also forwarded to the client layered service provider, where it is stored as pre-fetch data. If additional application data is requested by the application, the additional data can be supplied from the stored pre-fetch data, if available.