Patent ID: 8112529
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for retrieval at a client system of content from a server system, comprising: a communication protocol that enables an asynchronous connection over a network between a client system and a server system, and allows the client system to send via the network, and within a session between the client system and the server system, a lengthening string composed of a plurality of consecutively input characters, to query the server system for string-based content, while asynchronously receiving consecutive responses from the server system as the characters are being input; a content-based cache, at the server system, which stores previous queries and corresponding result sets previously executed by the system, and which includes within its result sets content or other information previously retrieved from the server system or one or more content sources in response to the previous queries; a client object, in communication with a client software at the client system and with the communication protocol, wherein the client object a server object, in communication with the server system, and with the client object via the communication protocol, wherein the server object