Patent ID: 6594682
Filing Date: 2003-07-15
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
In a client-server system in which Web content is delivered from multiple servers to a client, a client-based system implemented at the client comprising:a scheduling subsystem to schedule times to obtain the Web content from the servers without the servers having prearranged knowledge of the times, whereupon reaching a scheduled time, the scheduling subsystem generates an event notification containing information regarding how to retrieve the Web content from a corresponding server; a delivery subsystem, responsive to the event notification, to retrieve the Web content and an index of the Web content from the corresponding server; a cache to store the index and the Web content obtained by the delivery system; an indexing subsystem to retrieve the index from the cache and present the index to a user, the indexing subsystem including a user interface which enables the user to select from the index portions of the Web content stored in the cache; and a filter to condense the index according to preferences of the user.