Patent ID: 6947444

Claim:
In a data transmission system including a wireless link for transmitting packets between an end user machine and an Internet server that houses content in the form of web pages containing objects, the wireless link comprising a mobile subscriber unit coupled to the end user machine and a base station coupled to the server and in radio communication with the subscriber unit, a selected web page on the server being retrieved in the form of web page data packets in response to web page retrieval request packets, the objects on such web page being separately retrievable in the form of object data packets in response to object retrieval request packets, a method of transmission over the wireless link, comprising the steps of: intercepting the retrieved web page data packets on the base station side of the wireless link; locally generating, from the intercepted retrieved web page data packets, object retrieval request packets representative of the objects on the selected web page; transmitting the locally generated object retrieval request packets to the server to retrieve the corresponding object data packets; locally storing, at the base station site, the retrieved web page data packets and the retrieved object data packets; selectively transmitting the locally stored web page data packets and at least a portion of the locally stored object data packets in bundled form to the subscriber unit side of the wireless link; and locally storing the selectively transmitted object data packets on the subscriber unit side of the wireless link for subsequent retrieval by object retrieval request packets transmitted by the end user machine.