Patent ID: 9413842
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for purging content from a plurality of storage servers that are operated by a distributed platform, the computer-implemented method comprising: caching particular content of a distributed platform customer at a particular storage server of the plurality of storage servers; receiving a plurality of identifiers identifying a plurality of content to be purged from cache; generating one regular expression from the plurality of identifiers, said regular expression matching each identifier of the plurality of identifiers; configuring the particular storage server with the regular expression instead of the plurality of identifiers designated for purging; receiving at the particular storage server, a user request for the particular content; obtaining a particular identifier for the particular content from the user request; responding to the user request with a cache miss from the particular storage server in response to the particular identifier matching the regular expression configured for the particular storage server; and responding to the user request with a cache hit from the particular storage server in response to the particular identifier not matching the regular expression configured for the particular storage server.