METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING THE THROUGHPUT OF A LOCAL AREA NETWORK

A method and system for improving local area network throughput and thereby reducing traffic on the network hardware, allowing more workstations to be serviced by fewer servers. A further method for creating a bi-directional distributed processing system for cooperatively improving the local area network performance. In the preferred embodiment, a method is presented allowing workstations on a network to cache locally data normally retrieved from a network server or host machine.