Computer system making bandwidth-efficient use of internet resources

摘要

A computer system, configured for bandwidth-efficient use of internet resource has a storage system, in which are stored: (i) web data selected for storage based on (a) frequency of occurrence in downloads from the World Wide Web as determined with reference to a relevant population of users over a relevant period of time or (b) relative importance to the relevant population of users over the relevant period of time; and (ii) instructions that establish a local-reference computer process, running within a web browser computer process, which, responsive to a URL entered into a browser established by the web browser computer process, first accesses the storage system to determine whether web data corresponding to the entered URL is stored in the storage system, and, if so, causes the corresponding web data to be retrieved locally from the storage system and displayed in the browser.