Patent ID: 7685224

Claim:
A method for creating a geographically bounded network of computers that use distributed processing to implement a geographically bounded searchable index of webpages comprising the computer implemented steps of: creating a geographically bounded network of computers that use distributed processing to implement a geographically bounded searchable index of webpages by: creating and maintaining a list of attribute bounded electronic addresses representing a plurality of indexable electronic documents, on a computer network, that are associated with a geographically bounded region, where the computer network is the Internet and the electronic documents are webpages on the Internet; identifying a plurality of peer computers associated with the geographically bounded region, the peer computers to perform distributed processing tasks to enable creation of a geographically bounded searchable index of webpages, where the geographically bounded searchable index of webpages is created by the peer computers spidering the geographically bounded webpages; and in response to receiving a geographically bounded request from one of the peer computers, assigning one or more geographically bounded electronic addresses from the geographically bounded list, where the requesting peer computer processes the assigned geographically bounded electronic address to index one or more geographically bounded webpages that are obtained through the assigned geographically bounded electronic address; storing the geographically bounded searchable index of webpages locally on a local hard drive of a tablet device, where the geographically bounded searchable index of webpages is accessible offline from the local hard drive of the tablet device without accessing the Internet; and enabling, from the tablet device, access to one or more of the geographically bounded webpages without connecting to the Internet.