Patent Document ID: 8930807
Application ID: 13452387

Base Claim:
1. A computer implemented method for responding to hypertext requests, the computer implemented method comprising: a server receiving a hypertext request from a client; responsive to receiving the hypertext request from the client, looking up a hypertext document, wherein looking up comprises obtaining a first HyperText Markup Language (HTML) element and a second HTML element and combining the first HTML element and second HTML element into a hypertext document; parsing the hypertext document for timeliness tags, wherein a first at least one expire-date tag is a first timeliness tag associated with the first HTML element, the first at least one expire-date tag is expired, and a second at least one expire-date tag is a second timeliness tag associated with the second HTML element, the second at least one expire-date tag is not expired; determining if at least one of the first and second at least one expire-date tags is expired; and responsive to a determination that at least one of the first and second at least one expire-date tags is expired, looking up a timeliness tag rule corresponding to an at least one expired tag, wherein looking up further comprises determining that the first at least one expire-date tag is among the at least one expired tag, and in response, transmitting the second HTML element to the client and excluding transmitting the first HTML element.

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Claim 8:
8. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein looking up the timeliness tag rule corresponding to the at least one expired tag comprises: determining that the timeliness tag rule is to exclude in response to an expired tag; and responsive to the determination that the timeliness tag rule is to exclude in response to an expired tag, excluding an HTML element associated with the at least one expired tag as the server responds to the client.