INFORMATION RETRIEVAL IN CACHE DATABASE

摘要

The invention provides an information access system for downloading information using a communications network (110) such as the Internet. The system downloads pages at user request to local storge (120) and at the same time reviews the pages for embedded HTML links. It then also downloads the pages identified by the embedded links to a secondary, "lookahead" local cac he (125). The invention, referred to as "Casper" (Cached Access to Stored Pages with Easy Retrieval), offers a reduction in accessing times to the user and also a reduction in network traffic.