UNCACHED DATA CONTROL IN SERVER-CACHED PAGE

• US 20090327404A1
• Filed: 06/27/2008
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Honein, Jad Nachat
• Granted Patent: US 8,250,177 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Dynamic processing markers for use with cached web pages. If a request for a cached web page is received at a server, the server can provide the cached web page to the client. However, if there are one or more processing markers associated with the cached page, the server may process the dynamic processing marker using information from the request. Potentially, the dynamic result of this processing may be provided with the cached web page to the client. Alternatively or in addition, the dynamic processing marker is provided to the client, whereupon the client provides the processing marker to another server that processes the marker. Accordingly, even cached web pages that are cached at the server side may cause appropriate processing by the server upon receiving a request for the web page.

Claims

1. A method for a server to respond to a client request for a web page, the method comprising:

an act of receiving a request from a client for a web page, the web page including a cached portion and corresponding to one or more processing markers;

an act of determining that the web page includes a dynamic processing marker;

an act of executing a server control corresponding to the dynamic processing marker using input information from the request; and

an act of returning the web page to the client including the cached portion of the web page.

2. A method in accordance with Claim 1, wherein the input information comprises client-specific information.

3. A method in accordance with Claim 1,

wherein the act of executing the server control results in dynamic content to be returned with the cached portion of the web page to the client, and

wherein the act of returning the web page to the client also includes an act of returning the dynamic content to the client.

4. A method in accordance with Claim 3, wherein the dynamic content is not rendered at the client.

5. A method in accordance with Claim 3, wherein the dynamic content comprises a polling history for the client or user of the client.

6. A method in accordance with Claim 1, wherein the act of executing the server control does not result in dynamic content to be returned to the client in the web page.

7. A method in accordance with Claim 1, wherein the one or more dynamic processing markers includes just a single dynamic processing marker.

8. A method in accordance with Claim 1, wherein the dynamic processing marker is a first dynamic processing marker, wherein the one or more dynamic processing markers includes the first dynamic processing marker and at least a second dynamic processing marker.

9. A method in accordance with Claim 8, wherein the server control corresponding to the first dynamic processing marker is a first server control, the method further comprising:

an act of executing a second server control corresponding to the second dynamic processing marker using input information from the request.

10. A method in accordance with Claim 8, wherein the method further comprising:

an act of returning the second dynamic processing marker to the client.

11. A method for a client to receive a web page, the method comprising:

an act of issuing a request for a web page from a first server, wherein the web page is cached at the first server and includes one or more processing markers;

an act of receiving the web page including the one or more processing markers from the first server;

an act of determining that the web page includes a dynamic processing marker; and

an act of providing the dynamic processing marker to a second server for processing.

12. A method in accordance with Claim 11, further comprising:

an act of receiving a result of the processing from the second server to which the client provided the dynamic processing marker.

13. A method in accordance with Claim 12, wherein the result is a tracking of whether or not the client or the user of the client has already voted.

14. A method in accordance with Claim 11, wherein the second server that provided the dynamic processing marker is the same server as the first server that provided the web page to the client.

15. A method in accordance with Claim 11, wherein the second server that provided the dynamic processing marker is different than the first server that provided the web page to the client.

16. A method in accordance with Claim 11, wherein the act of providing the second dynamic processing marker to the second server comprises an act of providing client or user-specific information to the second server.

17. A method in accordance with Claim 16, wherein the second processing marker causes the second server to register the request to thereby allow the second server to monitor network traffic.

18. A method in accordance with Claim 11, wherein the one or more processing markers includes a single processing marker.

19. A method in accordance with Claim 11, wherein the one or more processing markers includes a plurality of processing markers.

20. A computer program product comprising one or more physical computer-readable media having thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a server, cause the server to perform the following upon receiving a request from a client for a web page that includes a cached portion and one or more processing markers included within the cached portion:

an act of determining that the web page includes a dynamic processing marker;

an act of executing a server control corresponding to the dynamic processing marker using input information from the request and user server-side data to thereby generate a result;

an act of embedding the result in the web page using the cached web page as a framework; and

an act of returning the web page to the client including the cached portion of the web page and including the embedded result of the execution of the server control.