Patent ID: 7694008

Claim:
An apparatus for displaying, with a browser, Web pages that are comprised of a plurality of Web page objects, where said Web page objects must be fetched individually over long-latency links, comprising: means for selectively pre-fetching said Web page objects concurrently via aggregated and flow-controlled channels; and means for caching said pre-fetched Web page objects proximate to said browser; wherein sequential access to said Web page objects is provided in low bandwidth and high delay networks without altering browser behavior; the apparatus further comprising: an agent associated with said browser and a host platform; a gateway in communication with a source Web server; and a long-latency link between said agent and said gateway; wherein said means for selectively pre-fetching Web-page objects comprises an independent flow control mechanism (VTP) for downloading Web page objects in parallel from said source Web server to said browser via said long-latency link; wherein said means for caching said pre-fetched Web page objects proximate to said browser comprises a cache associated with said host platform into which Web page objects are selectively downloaded in parallel as soon as said agent is aware of them, independently of an implementation of said browser and said source Web server; wherein selected embedded Web page objects are made locally available to said browser at said cache by said agent; and wherein said browser does not need to wait for a request and a corresponding response to traverse said long-latency link before a Web object is available.