Dynamically allocated secondary browser cache

• US 8,214,594 B1
• Filed: 11/11/2011
• Issued: 07/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: Sprint Communications Company LP (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Kneisley, Gabriel B., Smith, Brian, Bryan, Jeff
• Primary Examiner(s): Elmore, Stephen
• Application Number:
  US13/294,790
• Time in Patent Office: 235 Days
• Field of Search: 711/118, 711/151, 711/156, 711/158, 711/165, 711/170, 707/672, 707/726, 709/226
• US Class Current: 711/118
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching

Abstract

A method, system, and medium are provided for managing cache allocation between a primary storage and a secondary storage. The system includes a device with a primary storage, secondary storage, and cache manager. The method includes downloading a web resource, storing the web resource in the primary storage, determining the amount of time required to download the web resource, and determining the amount of time required to retrieve the web resource from the secondary storage. If the amount of time required to retrieve the web resource from the secondary storage is less than the amount of time required to download the web resource, the method stores the web resource in the secondary storage. Additionally, web resources may be moved from the secondary storage to the primary storage based on their likelihood of being utilized.

Claims

1. A method for managing cache between a primary storage and a secondary storage on a device, the method comprising:

moving a first web resource stored in the primary storage to the secondary storage, based on a comparison between

(A) an amount of time required to download the first web resource, and

(B) an amount of time required to retrieve the first web resource from the secondary storage; and

deleting a second web resource stored in the secondary storage, based on a comparison between

(A) an amount of time required to download the second web resource, and

(B) an amount of time required to download the first web resource.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising moving a third web resource from the secondary storage to the primary storage based on a likelihood that the third web resource will be utilized.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first web resource is moved to the secondary storage when the amount of time required to retrieve the first web resource from the secondary storage is less than the amount of time required to download the first web resource.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second web resource is deleted when the amount of time required to download the second web resource is less than the amount of time required to download the first web resource.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the device is a mobile device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the primary storage is memory resident on the device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the secondary storage is a removable storage unit.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein moving the first web resource to the secondary storage comprises:

writing the first web resource to a first file on the removable storage unit;

storing the location of the web resource in the first file to a second file on the device; and

wherein the first file on the removable storage unit is a string of a plurality of web resources that are stored on the removable storage unit.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein moving the first web resource to the secondary storage comprises deleting the first web resource from the primary storage.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the amount of time required to download the first web resource is determined at least by measuring a time between requesting to download the first web resource and a completed download of the first web resource.

11. One or more computer-storage media having computer-usable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method for managing cache between a primary storage and a secondary storage on a mobile device, the method comprising:

selecting a first web resource to be deleted from the primary storage;

determining whether storage space is available in the secondary storage for the first web resource;

when storage space is available in the secondary storage, then storing the first web resource in the secondary storage;

when storage space is not available in the secondary storage, then

(A) deleting a second web resource from the secondary storage to make storage space available in the secondary storage for the first web resource, and

(B) storing the first web resource in the secondary storage;

deleting the first web resource from the primary storage.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the second web resource is selected to be deleted based on at least one of,

(A) a FIFO prioritization,

(B) a comparison between an amount of time required to download the second web resource and an amount of time required to retrieve the second web resource from the secondary storage, or

(C) an expiration date of the second web resource.

13. The media of claim 11, further comprising determining that there is storage space available on the secondary storage for each of a plurality of web resources in the primary storage.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the amount of time required to download the second web resource is determined at least by measuring a time between requesting to download the second web resource and a completed download of the second web resource.

15. The media of claim 11, wherein the secondary storage is a removable storage unit.

16. A method for managing cache between a primary storage and a secondary storage on a mobile device, the method comprising:

determining whether a first web resource stored in the secondary storage has a likelihood of being utilized;

when the first web resource has a likelihood of being utilized, then moving the first web resource from the secondary storage to the primary storage;

preventing the primary storage from filling up by removing a second web resource from the primary storage, wherein removing the second web resource includes,

(A) determining whether the second web resource has expired,

(B) when the second web resource has expired, then deleting the second web resource, and

(C) when the second web resource has not expired, then moving the second web resource to the secondary storage.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising updating a log to indicate that the first web resource is in the primary storage.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising updating a log to indicate that the second web resource is in the secondary storage.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein determining whether the first web resource has a likelihood of being utilized is based at least on a domain to which the user is currently browsing and web resources associated with the domain that have been previously downloaded.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein determining that a web resource has a likelihood of being utilized is based at least on an order in which a plurality of web resources were previously downloaded.