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Content-facilitated speculative preparation and rendering

  • US 8,341,245 B1
  • Filed: 09/26/2011
  • Issued: 12/25/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for web content prefetching comprising:

  • obtaining speculative information associated with a uniform resource locator (URL), wherein the speculative information includes a likelihood that a user will navigate to the URL and an estimated value of cacheability;

    analyzing a processing availability associated with a client;

    determining, using a computing device, whether to prefetch content of the URL based on the likelihood that the user will navigate to the URL and the processing availability associated with the client;

    when the estimated value of cacheability is below a threshold, determining that the URL content should not be stored in a cache;

    when the estimated value of cacheability is not below a threshold, determining that the URL content should be stored in the cache; and

    providing an instruction to prefetch the URL content when the determining results in a determination to prefetch,wherein the computing device includes a client computing device, and the obtaining, analyzing, determining, and providing are performed at the client computing device.

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