Patent ID: 7523173

Claim:
A web page acquisition service system, said system comprising: a web page acquisition server and user terminals connected via a communication network; wherein said terminals transmit to said web page acquisition server (a) user profiles comprising contact and transmission size information and (b) web page acquisition requests including acquisition conditions; wherein, according to the web page acquisition requests, said web page acquisition server generates an integrated web page acquisition list comprising non-overlapping web page acquisition requests, said integrated web page acquisition list further comprising: a user name field; a time field; a URL field; and a depth field; wherein, in accordance with said integrated web page acquisition list, said web page acquisition server forms at least one predetermined scheduling rule regarding an acquisition time for at least one web page included in the integrated web page acquisition list and acquires web page sources from a web server on said communication network; wherein said web page sources, acquired in accordance with said web page acquisition requests, are formed into library files in accordance with said user profiles and transmitted to said terminals; wherein multiple web page sources for a user terminal are combined into a single library file which is stored in the web page acquisition server and is subsequently transmitted to said user terminal; and wherein, when said web page acquisition server receives from the terminals a plurality of web page acquisition requests for a same web page source, said web page acquisition server obtains and archives, utilizing a single request to a web server according to the integrated web page acquisition list, a corresponding web page source for said plurality of requests such that the same web page source must be requested and obtained only once for the terminals, and transmits said same web page source to the terminals that transmitted the plurality of web page acquisition requests for a same web page source in the form of a library file.