Patent ID: 11895187
Assignee: ISS IP HOLDINGS LLC, C/O HARVARD BUSINESS SERVICES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for obtaining distributed information by a client computer of a computer network, wherein the distributed information comprises pieces of information and wherein which pieces of information are identified by different locations, the method comprising:
(i) by a client computer: receiving a command for downloading distributed information being identified by a primary location on a server;
(ii) by the client computer: sending information about the primary location to a proxy server;
(iii) by the proxy server: Receiving the information about the primary location from the client computer;
(iv) by the client computer: Retrieving at least one primary piece of information of the distributed information being identified by the primary location from the primary location and/or from a proxy server and/or a client cache, wherein the primary piece of information includes instructions for obtaining separately downloadable secondary pieces of information, wherein each secondary piece of information is identified in the primary piece of information by a secondary location, wherein the secondary location is different from the primary location, and wherein the secondary pieces of information are separately downloadable and part of said distributed information;
(v) by the client computer: Determining a sequence of importance of the secondary pieces of information using an algorithm;
(vi) by the proxy server: Determining the sequence of importance of the secondary pieces of information using the same algorithm as the client computer in feature (v) or algorithm equivalent to algorithm in feature (v),
(vii) by the proxy server: Sending a first data stream comprising at least a portion of the secondary pieces of information to the client computer wherein the secondary pieces of information are sequenced according to their position in the sequence of importance as determined by the proxy server and/or wherein secondary pieces of information are sent with a position indicator identifying the position of the respective secondary piece of information in the sequence of importance as determined by the proxy server, and
(viii) by the client computer: receiving the first data stream and using the sequence of importance as determined by the client computer as a look-up table to identify at least one piece of information received via the first data stream by its position in the first data stream and/or by the position indicator.