Network document transmission to receiving display stations with automatic sizing of received document caches based upon user activity in prior browsing sessions

In a computer managed communications network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving display stations and with a system for displaying documents transmitted to said display stations from locations remote from said stations, said documents including a sequence of at least one display screen page including images, the improvement comprising:

• at least one of said receiving display stations including disk storage means, random access memory means and a cache including portions of said disk storage means and said random access memory means for storing data representative of received screen pages;
• and
• means for determining the size of said portions of disk storage means and said random access storage means for said cache comprising;
• means for monitoring the quantities of disk storage and of random access memory used in said cache during prior transmission of screen pages to said at least one receiving display station, and
• means for sizing the portions of disk storage and random access memory allocated to the present cache based upon said monitoring.