Patent ID: 8694614
Filing Date: 2014-04-08
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: maintaining a plurality of shortcut sets in a storage that is accessible to a proxy that is communicatively positioned between a client and a server; wherein each shortcut set of the plurality of shortcut sets contains associations between one or more hint tokens and one or more data sources; examining, at the proxy, a response that was sent by the server in response to a request from the client to the server, the request containing a particular hint token; determining, by the proxy, whether the response from the server indicates that the server has found a shortcut set that contains the particular hint token; in response to determining that the response from the server indicates that the server has not found a shortcut set that contains the particular hint token, the proxy determining whether any shortcut set in the plurality of shortcut sets contains the particular hint token; and in response to determining that a particular shortcut set in the plurality of shortcut sets contains the particular hint token, the proxy directing the client to a data source associated, within the particular shortcut set, with the particular hint token.