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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1996
Julien Tan Nguyen, Redwood City, CA (US);
Planet Web, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a method and system for dynamic preloading of web pages. In a system having a page server for transmitting pages upon request and a page client (or “web browser”) for requesting pages and presenting those pages to an operator, the page client dynamically identifies links subsequent to the loaded page and preloads pages identified by those links for subsequent presentation to the operator, so that the preloaded pages are preloaded dynamically in response to operator selections and are available for presentation to the operator when ultimately selected. The page server and the page client may act independently or may cooperate so as to dynamically select and preload pages from the page server to the page client using parameters indicated by the page client (such as parameters selected by the operator or adaptively determined by the page client), parameters indicated by the web server (such as parameters selected by the page under presentation or adaptively determined by the page server), or parameters indicated by links to those subsequent pages, or responsive to a combination thereof. The page client may dynamically save and recall behavior information about pages to be presented, such behavior information possibly being independent of actual links indicated on the pages. The behavior information may be responsive to parameters selected by the operator parameters adaptively determined by the page client, or responsive to a combination thereof.