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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2000
Atsushi Inoue, Kanagawa, JP;
Eiji Kamagata, Kanagawa, JP;
Noriyasu Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Naohisa Shibuya, Saitama, JP;
Yoshinari Kumaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuro Shobatake, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsushi Inoue, Kanagawa, JP;
Eiji Kamagata, Kanagawa, JP;
Noriyasu Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Naohisa Shibuya, Saitama, JP;
Yoshinari Kumaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuro Shobatake, Kanagawa, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
In the disclosed information delivery scheme for delivering WWW information provided by information servers on the Internet to mobile computers connected to the Internet through a wireless network, a plurality of cache servers capable of caching WWW information provided by the information servers are provided in association with the wireless network. The cache servers can be managed by receiving a message indicating at least a connected location of a mobile computer in the wireless network from the mobile computer, selecting one or more cache servers located nearby the mobile computer according to the message, and controlling these one or more cache servers to cache selected WWW information selected for the mobile computer, so as to enable faster accesses to the selected WWW information by the mobile computer. Also, the cache servers can be managed by selecting one or more cache servers located within a geographic range defined for an information provider who provides WWW information from an information server, and controlling these one or more cache servers to cache selected WWW information selected for the information provider, so as to enable faster accesses to the selected WWW information by the mobile computer.