Patent ID: 6282542
Filing Date: 2001-08-28
Classification: G06F,H04B,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
In an internet access system that includes a communications link, the communications link having a client side and having a server side which is remote from the client side, a method of processing a client request for a document that includes an inline object, the client request generated by a client and directed to a document server, the document comprising a base component which includes a reference to the inline object, the method comprising:on the client side of the communications link:(a) receiving the client request and forwarding the request over the communications link to the server side; on the server side of the communications link:(b) receiving the client request, and forwarding the request to the document server over an internet;(c) receiving the base component from the document server, parsing the base component to identify the reference to the object, and forwarding the base component over the communications link to the client side for delivery to the client; and(d) prefetching the inline object from the document server using the reference identified in step (c), and, without waiting for the client to request the object, forwarding the object over the communications link to the client side for delivery to client;wherein said prefetching is initiated on the server side of the communications link, transparently to the client.