Patent ID: 8341245
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for web content prefetching comprising: obtaining speculative information associated with a uniform resource locator (URL), wherein the speculative information includes a likelihood that a user will navigate to the URL and an estimated value of cacheability; analyzing a processing availability associated with a client; determining, using a computing device, whether to prefetch content of the URL based on the likelihood that the user will navigate to the URL and the processing availability associated with the client; when the estimated value of cacheability is below a threshold, determining that the URL content should not be stored in a cache; when the estimated value of cacheability is not below a threshold, determining that the URL content should be stored in the cache; and providing an instruction to prefetch the URL content when the determining results in a determination to prefetch, wherein the computing device includes a client computing device, and the obtaining, analyzing, determining, and providing are performed at the client computing device.