Patent ID: 7987240

Claim:
A method to be performed by a part of the operating system of a computer for providing access for an application program to data of remote resources located in an electronic computer network, wherein said application program is implemented on a computer residing in said network, the method comprising: scanning the values of environment variables of said application program for the occurrence of an URL notation; invoking a remote function for accessing an URL found in said scanning procedure in order to request a remote resource associated with said URL; storing said remote resource in a pre-allocated cache memory section for providing access to said resource; verifying the content of the pre-allocated cache memory section on regular intervals or through file system event listener to initiate update from or to a remote file system; checking if a local cache memory section exists which is allocated for the remote resource associated with said URL notation; if no cache memory section exists, allocating a respective section of the local cache memory section and keep it current through scheduled updates or through an file system event listener; and if an allocated memory section exists, storing said remote resource at said local cache memory section.