Patent ID: 6775743
Filing Date: 2004-08-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method comprising:receiving a request for content; performing an action selected from the group of actions essentially consisting of: in response to determining that the content comprises cacheable content and that a previous request for the content has already been forwarded to a server responsible for the content, waiting to process the request until a response to the previous request has been received; in response to determining that the content comprises non-cacheable content, forwarding the request to the server responsible for the content; in response to determining that the content comprises content unclassified as one of cacheable content and non-cacheable content, forwarding the request to the server responsible for the content; receiving a response to the request from the server responsible for the content, the response including the content and indicating whether the content is one of cacheable and non-cacheable; returning the content in response to the request; and, where the response to the request from the server responsible indicates that the content is cacheable, caching the content.