Patent ID: 8321483
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: means for receiving, at a file system within an operating system running within a computer system, a file system request from a first application program for accessing a file stored at a remote file system of a Web server over the Internet; means for the file system transforming the file system request into a network communications request conforming to a communications protocol acceptable by the Web server over the Internet and forwarding network communications request to the Web server; and means for caching locally within the computer system at least a portion of the requested file from the Web server over the Internet and using the at least a portion of the cached requested file which is cached to respond to the file system request as an ordinary file system response, wherein the at least a portion of the cached requested file is invisible via the file system of the operating system to a second application program running within the computer system other than the first application program.