Patent ID: 8108939
Filing Date: 2012-01-31
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method to facilitate security-enabled content caching, comprising: receiving, at a cache server, a request for restricted content from a first user; determining whether the requested restricted content is present at the cache server; in response to the requested restricted content not being present at the cache server, requesting, by the cache server, the restricted content from an application server, which determines whether the first user is authorized to access the requested restricted content; in response to the application server determining that the first user is authorized, receiving, at the cache server, from the application server, the requested restricted content and user-identifying information specific to the requested restricted content, wherein the user-identifying information identifies a number of users that are authorized to access the requested restricted content; forwarding the user-identifying information from the cache server to a security infrastructure, which is configured to store the user-identifying information and use the stored user-identifying information to authorize a subsequent request from a second user to access the restricted content at the cache server; storing at the cache server the restricted content; and delivering the restricted content to the first user.