Patent ID: 7779068

Claim:
A Web content fetch and delivery system comprising: a proxy server configured for communicating with content provider servers over at least one communication network; said proxy server is programmed for responding to a request from a user for a Web page by retrieving the Web page from a corresponding one of the content provider servers and concurrently determining IP addresses of linked URLs in the Web page and for responding to a request from the user for contents of one of the linked URLs by retrieving the contents from a corresponding one of the content provider servers based on a corresponding one of the determined IP addresses; said proxy server performs the concurrent determination of the IP addresses of the linked URLs independent of one or more intermediate requests from the user and when no access request for the linked URLs have been received by the proxy server; said proxy server further automatically establishes connections to the linked URLs in the Web page prior to any request for those linked URLs; and said proxy server pre-fetches connecting communicating channels for said linked URLs to said content provider servers over said at least one communication network without pre-fetching content corresponding thereto for improving response time of said system.