Patent ID: 9235618
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for caching by a device intermediary to a client and a database a result of a structured query language (SQL) query request, the method comprising: (a) receiving, by a device intermediary to a plurality of clients and a database, a SQL response from the database to a first structured query language (SQL) query request of a client of the plurality of clients, the device maintaining a cache of SQL responses from the database; (b) identifying, by the device, that the first SQL query request matches a rule of a policy for caching SQL responses from the database, the policy comprising a cache action to take on a response to a query when the rule is matched; and (c) performing, by the device responsive to the policy, on the SQL response received from the database the cache action identified by the policy matching the first SQL query request.