US 6,672,775 B1Granted

Cross-machine web page download and storage

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorChandrasekhar Narayanaswami

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Abstract

A method and system is disclosed for downloading data, such as a web page, over a network such as the internet. The method includes the steps of (a) initiating a web page download request with a requesting entity having a first network address, the requesting entity being connected to the network; (b) fulfilling the web page download request with a web page source entity having a second network address; (c) transmitting a requested web page to a destination entity having a third network address; and (d) receiving and storing the requested web page in the destination entity for subsequent use by a user of the requesting entity. In this manner a low performance data processor may specify certain web pages to be downloaded to a higher performance processor over a higher bandwidth link, and may also specify postprocessing to be performed on retrieved web pages prior to a user of the first data processor accessing the stored web pages.

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Dependent claims

A method to download data from a server over a network, comprising the steps of:

initiating a data download request with a requesting entity having a first network address, the requesting entity having an interface for connecting to the network over a first communication link;
sending the data download request to a destination entity where the request is first verified for authenticity and then modified by the destination entity to include a third network address of the destination entity;
forwarding the modified data download request to a data server;
fulfilling the data download request with the data server entity having a second network address;
transmitting, over a second communication link, the requested data to the destination entity having the third network address;
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testing authorization for receiving said requested data and receiving and storing the requested data in the destination entity for subsequent access by any authorized user if said authorization passes, wherein the requesting entity is different from the destination entity, and wherein the requested data is transmitted from the data server entity to the destination entity without transmitting the requested data from the data server entity or a source entity to the requesting entity.

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