US6067565 Patents
Ju1 1997. A technique that, through continual computation, harnesses available computer resources during periods of low proceSS ing activity and low network activity, Such as idle time, for prefetching, e.g., Web pages, or pre-Selected portions thereof, into local cache of a client computer. This technique utilizes, e.g., a probabilistic user model, which Specifies, at any one time, those pages or portions of pages that are likely to be prefetched given, e.g., a web page currently being rendered to a user; these pages being those which promise to provide the largest benefit (expected utility)
53 claims. 193,423 characters of text.