Patent ID: 7313616

Claim:
In a World Wide Web (Web) communication network, a Web server system for accessing stored Web documents from resource databases and transmitting said Web documents onto said Web comprising: a plurality of server computers of different computer powers at a resource location; a plurality of stored Web documents, each accessible from said resource database by a designated at least one of said server computers; means for determining a document weight for each of said plurality of Web documents including: means for counting the total number of bytes of data representing the content of each of said documents, means for assigning a complexity weight to programs in each of said plurality of documents, and means for multiplying the byte total for each Web document by the complexity weight of the Web document, means for designating the server computers for said respective Web documents based upon said document weights, means for changing the content of each of said documents, means, responsive to said means for changing the content, for periodically redetermining the document weights for each of said plurality of documents, and means, responsive to said means for changing the content, for redesignating said server computers for said respective Web documents based upon said redetermined document weights.