System and Methods of Pre-Fetching Content in one or more Repositories

• US 20140379837A1
• Filed: 12/31/2013
• Published: 12/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyland Switzerland, Sarl (HSI Holdings II Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Lexmark International Incorporated (Ninestar Corporation)
• Inventors: Gasser, Otto Hunter, Romatoski, Jeffrey Allen, Atanasiu, Razvan
• Granted Patent: US 9,826,054 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/213
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5681 Pre-fetching or pre-delivering data based on network characteristics

Abstract

A method of pre-fetching content that includes determining a possible future use of a content and determining if the content is available in a cache repository. If the possible future use is determined and the content is determined to be unavailable in the cache repository, the method retrieves the content from a remote repository and provides the retrieved content to a content consumer.

Claims

1. A method of pre-fetching content, comprising:

determining a possible future use of a content;

determining if the content is available in a cache repository;

if possible future use is determined and the content is determined to be unavailable in the cache repository, retrieving the content from a remote repository; and

providing the retrieved content to a content consumer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing the retrieved content to the content consumer is performed prior to use of the content.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the retrieved content from the remote repository to the cache repository.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the possible future use of the content includes monitoring HL7 messages.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the possible future use of the content is triggered by an HL7 Order Message (ORM) information.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the HL7 ORM information is a scheduled procedure data.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising configuring a number of content to be retrieved from the remote repository prior to use of the content.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the possible future use of the content includes the content consumer requesting for the content at a later time.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the retrieving the content from the remote repository is performed using XDR between the remote repository and the cache repository.

10. A system for pre-fetching one or more documents, comprising:

a content consumer;

a cache repository connected to the content consumer that identifies a possible future use of a document;

a remote repository connected to the cache repository,

wherein if the cache repository receives the indication of the possible future use of the document, the cache repository retrieves a copy of the document from the remote repository.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the content consumer, the cache repository and the remote repository communicate to each other using XDR.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the cache repository monitors HL7 messages to identify a possible future use of the document.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein if at least one HL7 message indicates that the document is to be requested by the content consumer at a later time.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the possible future use of the document is a scheduled procedure data that utilizes the document.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the content consumer retrieves the document from the cache repository instead of the remote repository at the time of the scheduled procedure data.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the cache repository retrieves the copy of the document from the remote repository only if the cache repository does not contain the document at the time the possible future use of the document is identified.

17. A computing device having a non-transitory computer readable storage medium containing one or more instructions to:

monitor one or more HL7 messages to determine a possible future use of a content;

determine if the content is available in a cache repository;

if possible future use is determined and the content is determined to be unavailable in the cache repository, retrieve the content from a remote repository; and

provide the retrieved content to a content consumer.

18. The computing device of claim 17, wherein the instruction to provide the retrieved content to the content consumer is performed prior to use of the content by the content consumer.

19. The computing device of claim 17, further comprising an instruction to store the retrieved content from the remote repository to the cache repository.

20. The computing device of claim 17, further comprising an instruction to set a number of content to be retrieved from the remote repository prior to use of the content.