Patent ID: 6351767
Filing Date: 2002-02-26
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A system for caching which receives a request from a requester and builds, by collecting one or more parts from one or more sources, a response to that request, the response comprising a composite of the one or more parts, at least one of the parts comprising dynamic content, each part having one or more attributes characterizing the part, the attributes indicating the cacheability of the part, the system for caching the response comprising:an attribute analyzer for determining the attributes of the parts of the a response; cacheability analyzer for examining the attributes to determine cacheability of the response, wherein the attributes include at least one of a time variance setting of dynamic content, a user's identify, or a location of dynamic content, and making a cacheability determination based upon that examination; and means for caching the response based upon that cacheability determination.