System for selectively requesting data from a server based on prior accepted requests, transmission rate, and transmission capacity
US6170016A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 9, 1998 |
| Grant date | Jan 2, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 9, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L69/329
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A content collection part compares the transmission rate (TD) inputted from a transmission rate monitoring part with a threshold value (C-.alpha.) in response to a start operation by a user. When a condition TD<(C-.alpha.) is satisfied, the content collection part starts an automatic content collection part to perform a background process to collect URL contents which were set up beforehand from a Web server. When the user designates URL contents, the content collection part controls the automatic content collection part to terminate the background process and enters a foreground process to collect the designated URL contents.
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