Patent ID: 7231458

Claim:
Adapted for a network including a client and a plurality of local domains including at least a first local domain and a second local domain, a method comprising: segmenting content including a Base Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) into multiple packets by a personal content director of the first local domain, a first packet of the multiple packets including the Base URI; transmitting the first packet of the multiple packets by the personal content director of the first local domain to at least a personal content director for the second local domain; substituting the Base URI for a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Base tag within each of the first packets by the personal content directors of at least the first and second local domains, the HTML Base tag substituted by the personal content director of the first local domain now points to the first local domain and the HTML Base tag substituted by the personal content director of the second local domain now points to the second local domain; and transmitting the first packets with the HTML Base tags by the personal content directors to the client; incorporating an earliest first packet received by the client from the plurality of personal content directors into a data stream and disregarding the later received first packets; and accessing the local domain associated with the personal content director that transmitted the first packet earliest received by the client for subsequent data requests.