Appeal No. 2003-0646
Application No. 09/250,154
first controlling means for receiving a first search request
from one of a plurality of client terminals and issuing a data
search request to a network access center connected to the
Internet in order to search and collect desired data designated
in said first search request from one of a plurality of Web
servers connected to the Internet;
second controlling means for receiving searched data from
said network access center via another network independent of the
Internet and transferring received data with a data received time
indicating a time the searched data was received to said first
controlling means; and
a data file for storing said searched data in association
with said data received time in response to said second
controlling means,
wherein said first controlling means having means for
receiving a second search request from one of said client
terminals, checking if there is any requested data corresponding
to said second search request in said data file, transmitting
requested data retrieved from said data file to said client
terminal which issued said second search request if said
requested data is present in said data file, and issuing a data
search request to one of said Web servers if said requested data
is not present in said data file.
REFERENCES
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Takase et al. (Takase) 5,822,535 Oct. 13, 1998
Chase et al. (Chase) 5,944,780 Aug. 31, 1999
(filed May 5, 1997)
Burns et al. (Burns) 5,991,306 Nov. 23, 1999
(filed Aug. 26, 1996)
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