Patent ID: 7711804

Claim:
A method of asynchronous delivery of digital data implemented in at least one server system and at least one client system connected via a network, said client system receiving deferred delivery of the digital data requested from said server system, comprising steps of: receiving a request for digital data coming from said client system, wherein the request for the digital data comprises an item identifying context information representing a first state of at least a part of said requesting client system on sending out said request for the digital data; searching, on the basis of said request, for at least certain of the requested data in at least one of said systems connected to said network; and delivering, by at least one hardware processing unit, a response to said requesting client system at a deferred time, wherein the response incorporates an item similar to said item identifying context information, said requesting client system putting itself at least in part into a second state perceptually similar to said first state, in accordance with said item identifying context information so that the client system display environment of the response according to the second state looks similar to the client system display environment according to the first state from which the request has been sent.