Patent ID: 7921117

Claim:
A method for data processing in a network environment, comprising; receiving a first request for a first web page, the first web page having associated links to one or more second web pages, wherein the first request has a priority, the priority of the first request being adjusted by a priority of a user initiating the request; servicing the first request in response to the first request having a higher adjusted priority than all other requests waiting to be serviced; providing the first web page associated with the request; identifying a transaction priority for each link to the one or more second web pages; comparing the transaction priority for each link to a prefetch threshold; prefetching those second web pages whose link transaction priority exceeds the prefetch threshold; identifying a user priority for each link to the one or more second web pages, the user priority associated with the user; receiving a second request for one of the second web pages from the user; adjusting a priority of the second request by the user priority; servicing the second request in response to the second request having a higher adjusted priority than all other requests waiting to be serviced.