Patent ID: 8595320

Claim:
A content distribution data processing system configured for page request management for aggregated page content, the system comprising: a processor and memory; a content server executing in memory of a host computer and configured for communicative coupling to a plurality of content browsers over a computer communications network; and, an if-none-match module coupled to the content server, the module comprising program code enabled upon execution in the host computer to (A) extract a key from a request from a requestor received in the content server for dynamically aggregated components in a page, (B) compute a key for the dynamically aggregated components requested in the request as a combination of identifiers for those of the aggregated components deemed accessible to the user and last modified data for the aggregated components deemed accessible to the user; (C) compare the extracted and computed keys; and, (D) indicate in response to the request when the extracted and computed keys match that the requested page has not been modified in lieu of returning a newly generated form of the page with the dynamically aggregated components to the requestor.