To provide an information distribution system for shortening entire information distribution time through optimum server access in an information distribution server using a relay server having a cache area.
This system has at least one or more clients 11, 12 and 13, relay server 2 connected through a network to these clients and at least one or more servers 31, 32 and 33 capable of performing access from the relay server 2 through the network, information is periodically requested while using optimum information requesting means 2A and 2B at optimum intervals by managing an attribute concerning every information requested to be distributed from the clients through the relay server 2, and information in a cache area 23 is kept at the latest state.
KOMATSUZAWA ATSUSHI
TAKAHASHI NORIYUKI
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