Appeal No. 2001-0465
Application No. 09/070,039
years. To this end, the Internet browser programs through which
these users access the Internet are provided with caching
capabilities at the receiving display station. See page 2 of
Appellants' specification. Conventionally, many browser programs
ask the user during set up to specify the quantity of RAM and the
quantity of disk drive storage that he wishes to set aside for
cache. Since a major portion of Internet and other network
access terminal users are relatively unsophisticated in computer
arts, this presents difficulties to such users. See pages 4 and
5 of Appellants' specification.
Appellants' invention offers a solution to this problem by
tracking the prior activity of the user in network accessing, and
uses this activity to automatically set aside appropriate RAM and
disk drive storage for caching. See page 5 of Appellants'
specification. Figure 3 is a flowchart of a program which may be
used to track the sizing of caches during prior browsing sessions
in order to size caches during subsequent sessions. See page 7
of Appellants' specification.
In Figure 3, step 82 is the determination step to determine
whether a next page has been received, which at this point will
be the initial page. If yes, then the cache sizes used in the
browser presenting this page will be tracked. The process then
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