Patent ID: 7716342

Claim:
A method for storing content responsive to a user request, comprising: receiving, by a web server, a request over a network for content from a client computer at the web server; parsing the request at the web server to form parsed elements; generating a mapped filename from at least one of the parsed elements, wherein the filename is not contained in the request; and determining at a cache manager whether a component that is part of the content is stored in the cache based on the mapped filename; if the component is stored in the cache: retrieving the component stored in the cache; and sending the content to the client including the component; if the component is not stored in the cache: obtaining content responsive to the request from a page generator computer, wherein the content comprises a set of generated components; and storing a generated component from the set of generated components independently from other components in the set of generated components in the cache according to the mapped filename, wherein said storing is performed by a cache manager computer.