OutOfMemoryError as a result of multiple searches

I have a classic JEE system, Web tier with JSF, EJB 3 for the BL, and Hibernate 3 doing the data access to a DB2 database. I am struggling with the following scenario: A user will initiate a process which involves retrieving a large data set from the database. The retrieval process takes some time and so the user does not receive an immediate response, gets impatient and opens a new browser and initiates the retrieval again, sometimes multiple times. The EJB container is obviously unaware of the fact that the first retrievals are no longer relevant, and when the database returns a result set, Hibernate starts populating a set of POJOs which take up vast amounts of memory, eventually causing an OutOfMemoryError.

A potential solution that I thought of was to use the Hibernate Session's cancelQuery method. However, the cancelQuery method only works before the database returns a result set. Once the database returns a result set and Hibernate begins populating the POJOs, the cancelQuery method no longer has an effect. In this case, the database queries themselves return rather quickly, and the bulk of the performance overhead seems to reside in populating the POJOs, at which point we can no longer call the cancelQuery method.