Patent ID: 8266291

Claim:
A method for dynamic property volatility assessment for distributed manageable resources, comprising: determining whether a property value of a remote resource has an associated volatility measurement; receiving metadata comprising the associated volatility measurement, wherein the associated volatility measurement is one of: a time value of expected duration of the property value and a refresh frequency of the property value; wherein the associated volatility measurement is assigned at a class-level for the remote resource and the associated volatility measurement augments one of: a mutability qualifier and a modifiability qualifier; in response to determining that the property value of the remote resource has the associated volatility measurement, invoking a network transaction to retrieve the property value at an interval that is less than or equal to one corresponding to the associated volatility measurement; and in response to determining that the property value of the remote resource does not have an associated volatility measurement: performing a frequency-based assessment comparing a frequency of change and a frequency of access for the property value; and caching the property value in response to comparing the frequency-based assessment to a threshold value.