Patent ID: 6286045
Filing Date: 2001-09-04
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
A method for storing information on a primary server and one or more secondary servers and on computer sites connected to a computer network, wherein information delivered over the computer network to a terminal or a group of terminals may contain references to other information to be delivered to the terminal, comprising:serving a first portion of information to a terminal, wherein said first portion of information contains a reference to a second portion of information;causing a first request signal to be transmitted from the terminal to a primary server requesting a location address for said second portion of information from which said second portion of information can be served to the terminal, wherein said first request signal includes information intended to prevent said first request signal from being blocked from reaching said primary server by either the terminal or any intermediary device located topologically between the terminal and the primary server as a result of previous caching of said first portion of information or said second portion of information in the terminal or said intermediary device;sending a location signal from the primary server to the terminal providing said location address of said second portion of information;causing a second request signal to be transmitted from the terminal containing said location address of said second portion of information and requesting said second portion of information be served to the terminal; andserving said second portion of information to the terminal.