Patent ID: 8352613

Claim:
A method comprising: determining, at a content delivery network service provider, a class associated with a subset of client computing devices serviced by the content delivery network service provider, wherein the content delivery network service provider hosts content on behalf of a content provider; monitoring resource requests for the determined class, wherein the resource requests correspond to requests for a first subset of the content hosted on behalf of the content provider; automatically determining, by one or more computing devices, additional content information associated with the monitored resource requests for the determined class, wherein the additional content information corresponds to information associated with a second subset of the content hosted on behalf of the content provider; identifying at least one cache component for receiving the additional content information, wherein the identity of the at least one cache component is determined as a function of the determined class; and providing the additional content information to the identified cache component, wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices of the content delivery network service provider.