Patent ID: 6675202
Filing Date: 2004-01-06
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method of providing a browsing session to a user, the method comprising:(a) providing a tree which relates a plurality of computer-readable items; and (b) in response to a user-initiated selection of a first computer-readable item in the tree: retrieving the first computer-readable item from a local cache; displaying the first computer-readable item; retrieving exactly two of the computer-readable items via a computer network, the exactly two of the computer-readable items consisting of a second computer-readable item which is a child of the first computer-readable item in the tree and a third computer-readable item which is a sibling of the first computer-readable item in the tree and had not been retrieved within the browsing session; and storing the second computer-readable item and the third computer-readable item in the local cache.