Appeal No. 2002-0288
Application No. 08/883,241
because the contents of the volatile cache were erased. The
prior art approach was to enable users to save entire remote web
sites, and other remote web sites linked to those saved remote
web sites, in a non-volatile memory of the local computer system.
But the increase in the size of the world wide web and sites on
the web makes this kind of download into the non-volatile memory
of the local computer system time consuming and causes an
extremely large amount of non-volatile memory space in the local
computer system to be used.
In order to limit the download time and storage space, the
instant invention causes storage in the non-volatile memory of a
selected remote web page, all web pages in the same node as the
selected web page, and all web pages in a preselected number of
nodes below the node of the selected web page. Thus, the non-
volatile memory is not loaded with unnecessary web pages from
higher level nodes in a remote web site. One embodiment includes
filtering parameters to prevent the local computer system from
storing certain types of web pages.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of downloading into memory of a local computer
system documents from nodes on a remote network site, the nodes
being in a hierarchical tree structure with a plurality of
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