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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2000
Liu Dong, Beijing, CN;
Leo Y. Liu, Cary, NC (US);
XiaoYan Chen, Beijing, CN;
XiaoPei Zhang, Beijing, CN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for providing responses to requests of an off-line client, comprising: a local request-response storage which stores a plurality of requests and a plurality of responses; a network traffic redirector, for redirecting requests of the client to the client machine itself by modifying the system configuration of the client machine when the client is off-line, and for redirecting requests of the client to the network connection by resuming the system configuration of the client machine when the client leaves the off-line state and enters an on-line state; and a local off-line server, for receiving a request of the client redirected to the client machine itself, for generating a response based on the request, the plurality of requests and the plurality of responses stored in the request-response storage, and for returning the response to the client.