Patent ID: 8171135
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for handling object data as part of a prefetch operation in a communications system, the method comprising: commencing downloading of object data of a prefetch object from a content server using a prefetch server communicatively coupled with the content server; accumulating the object data in an accumulator at the prefetch server; checking an accumulated size of the accumulated object data; determining, at the prefetch server and as a function of the accumulated size of the accumulated object data, whether the cost of pushing the object data to a client over a communication link of the communications system exceeds the benefit of pushing the object data to the client over the communication link of the communications system; and when the cost of pushing the object data to the client exceeds the benefit of pushing the object data to the client, aborting the prefetch operation.