Methods and systems for caching data using behavioral event correlations

• US 8,627,013 B2
• Filed: 09/16/2011
• Issued: 01/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aggregate Knowledge Incorporated (Neustar Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Aggregate Knowledge Incorporated (Neustar Incorporated)
• Inventors: Musumeci, Gian-Paolo, Wehner, Kristopher C.
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, THAN VINH
• Application Number:
  US13/235,219
• Publication Number:
  US 20120011325A1
• Time in Patent Office: 844 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 711/137
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0862 with prefetch
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0864 using pseudo-associative means, e.g. set-associative or hashing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/602 Details relating to cache prefetching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/383 Operand prefetching cache prefetching G06F12/0862

Abstract

A method is disclosed including a client accessing a cache for a value of an object based on an object identification (ID), initiating a request to a cache loader if the cache does not include a value for the object, the cache loader performing a lookup in an object table for the object ID corresponding to the object, the cache loader retrieving a vector of execution context IDs, from an execution context table that correspond to the object IDs looked up in the object table and the cache loader performing an execution context lookup in an execution context table for every retrieved execution context ID in the vector to retrieve object IDs from an object vector.

Claims

1. A method for populating a cache, comprising:

retrieving a set of execution context IDs from an object table, wherein the set of execution context IDs is associated with an object value;

performing an execution context lookup in an execution context table for every retrieved execution context ID to determine a set of objects to be retrieved from a backing store; and

retrieving the set of objects from the backing store and pre-loading the set of objects into the cache.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein accessing an existing object asynchronously triggers a cache load request.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein accessing an existing object causes a synchronous load request to be performed.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

performing a store lookup;

returning an object value from the store lookup; and

performing an object lookup using the object value.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing an object lookup in the object table for a predetermined number of object IDs requested by two or more cache clients.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing an object lookup in the object table for a predetermined number of object IDs.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein each member of the set of execution context IDs uniquely identifies an execution context for accessing an existing object.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the values in execution context IDs and the object IDs in the execution context table are sorted by time of an event for a scoring algorithm that uses time data.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising using the execution context vectors and the object vectors with a scoring algorithm to select highly scored object values to load in the cache.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the scoring algorithm considers information about the time required to retrieve values from a data store.

11. A system comprising:

a cache to receive access requests from a client to retrieve a value of an object based on an object identification (ID); and

a cache loader to retrieve a set of execution context IDs from an object table, wherein the set of execution context IDs is associated with an object value, the cache loader being further configured to perform an execution context lookup in an execution context table for every retrieved execution context ID to determine a set of objects to be retrieved from a backing store and to pre-load the set of objects into the cache.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the cache loader performs a store lookup and returns an object value from the store lookup prior to performing an object lookup.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the cache loader performs an object lookup in the object table for a predetermined number of object IDs requested by two or more cache clients.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the cache loader performs an object lookup in the object table for a plurality of object IDs.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing associated data, wherein the data, when accessed, results in a machine performing operations comprising:

retrieving a set of execution context IDs from an object table, wherein the set of execution context IDs is associated with an object value; and

performing an execution context lookup in an execution context table for every retrieved execution context ID to determine a set of objects to be retrieved from a backing store; and

retrieving the set of objects from the backing store and pre-loading the set of objects into the cache.