Methods and apparatus for enabling dynamic resource collaboration

• US 20060080664A1
• Filed: 11/15/2005
• Published: 04/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alvaria Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Aspect Communications Corporation (Alvaria Incorporated)
• Inventors: Dilip, Venkatachari, Jawahar, Janardhanan
• Granted Patent: US 8,312,146 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/323 Visualisation of programs or trace data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/87 Monitoring of transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/875 Monitoring of systems including the internet
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

Methods and apparatus for enabling collaboration with web pages and other resources is described. A method includes the step of establishing a collaboration session between a first client and a second client. A requested resource is cached with the session host in response to a request having a first uniform resource locator (URL) issued by the first client, if the requested resource is a pre-determined type of resource. A second URL is provided to the second client. The second URL identifies the requested resource or the cached resource in accordance with whether the requested resource is cached. Apparatus for enabling collaboration includes a web server, a cache, and a filter. The web server provides a requested web page in response to a first client'"'"'s request. The filter stores the requested web page in the cache, if the requested web page is a pre-determined type of web page. A number of predetermined characteristics for caching are described in various embodiments of the methods and apparatus. In one embodiment, the requested resource is cached if it is a dynamic web page. In one embodiment an expiration date of the requested resource determines whether the requested resource should be cached. In another embodiment, a filename associated with the requested resource determines whether the requested resource should be cached. In another embodiment, components of the request determine whether the requested web page should be cached.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a first web server to redirect a request, having a first uniform locator (URL), for a web page by a first client through the first web server if the URL identifies a second web server;

a cache; and

a filter coupled to the cache and the first web server, wherein the filter stores the requested web page in the cache if the requested web page includes a predetermined characteristic.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first client provides a second client with a second URL, wherein the second URL is the first URL if the web page is not cached, wherein the second URL identifies the cached web page if the requested web page is cached.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the first web server embeds the second URL in the requested web page before providing the requested web page to the first client.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the pre-determined characteristic of the requested web page corresponds to at least one from a group including a dynamically-generated web page, an expiration date of the requested web page being a future date, and the requested web page being associated with a filename having a specified characteristic.

5. An apparatus comprising:

a first web server to

retrieve a request, having a first uniform locator (URL), for a web page by a first client through the first web server; and

modify each URL, referring to a web server other than the first web server, within the web page to redirect the corresponding request through the first web server;

a cache; and

a filter coupled to the cache and the first web server, wherein the filter stores the requested web page in the cache if the requested web page includes a predetermined characteristic.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the pre-determined characteristic of the requested web page corresponds to at least one from a group including a dynamically-generated web page, an expiration date of the requested web page being a future date, and the requested web page being associated with a filename having a specified characteristic.