Fecha de publicación: 25/10/2001 Fuente: WIPO "royal booby" A method and system for displaying advertisements to a user is provided. In one embodiment, the advertisement system downloads a collection of advertisements from an advertising server to the user's computer. When the user executes a computer program at the user's computer, the advertisement system displays the downloaded advertisements to the user. Thus, the advertisements can be displayed to the user even when the user's computer is not connected to the Internet.