Patent ID: 7900147

Claim:
A method for supporting offline Web browsing at a client device comprising the steps of a) maintaining at said client device a user interests profile of that user's web-browsing behavior, said user interests profile including content preferences and attribute preferences of Web pages the user may be interested in, said attributes of Web pages including one or more of: file type, file size, file location information and their respective weights according to user's interest; b) receiving a hoard request for downloading one or more said Web pages; c) generating interestingness values of candidate Web pages based on said user's interests profile, said interestingness value accounting for content-based interestingness and attribute-based interestingness of said Web pages; d) selecting one or more candidate Web pages to hoard based on their respective interestingness values and downloading said selected Web pages; and, e) storing said Web pages for later viewing by said user when offline.