Patent ID: 6408360
Filing Date: 2002-06-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
In a system for receiving requests from requestors and serving responses to those requests, the system having a cache for holding previously served responses for serving to subsequent requests, at least some of the responses comprising dynamic content, a cached response retrieval system for retrieving a cached response comprising:a cache control unit having means for receiving a request and means for determining whether the cache contains a candidate cached response appropriate for that request; a cached response analyzer for analyzing the candidate cached response, the cached response analyzer determining the validity of the candidate cached response and for determining whether the validity determination is overridden, wherein the validity of the candidate cached response is determined based on at least one of a user's identity and a location of dynamic content; whereby the system serves the candidate cached response if the cached response analyzer determines that the candidate cached response is valid or if the validity determination is overridden.