Patent ID: 9619397
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04M

Claim:
1. A method for browser cache cleanup, the method comprising: computing, using a processor and a memory of a device, to consider for eviction a data item stored in a cache of a browser application, a probability that the data item will be needed again during a period after the eviction; determining a type of a data network that will be available at the device during the period; computing, a cost of obtaining the data item over a data network of the type of the data network, from a location of the device during the period; computing, using the probability that the data item will be needed again during the period, and further using the cost of obtaining the data item over the data network, a weight of the data item; associating the weight with the data item as a part of associating a set of weights with a set of data items in the cache; and selecting for eviction from the cache the data item because the weight is a lowest weight in the set of weights.