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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
May. 15, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shigekazu Inohara, Kokubunji, JP;
Toyohiko Kagimasa, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshimasa Masuoka, Kodaira, JP;
Fumio Noda, Kodaira, JP;
Jinghua Min, Kodaira, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ;
Abstract
Irregular and unstable natures of the Internet to be caused by an increase in Internet accessing users are alleviated and services of an information system more comfortable to users are provided. To this end, each servers among a plurality of servers cooperating to provide services stores the past communications line state (throughput and latency), and in accordance with the stored communications lines state, cache reference and prefetch are preformed between optional servers.