Patent ID: 8706799

Claim:
A system comprising: a host device configured to initiate a first request to receive information, the host device including: a network interface to operatively couple to a local storage device, wherein the local storage device is at least one of a flash-memory device, a subscriber identity module (SIM) card, and a memory card; and an exchanging mechanism configured to exchange, via the network interface, the information between a local web-server of the local storage device and a remote web-server that is external to the host device, wherein the information is exchanged in response to a second request that is initiated autonomously by the local web-server in response to receipt of the first request and conditioned upon unavailability of the information within the local storage device, wherein the exchanging mechanism is configured to provide communication between the local web-server of the local storage device and the remote web-server without the host device providing a man-machine interface.