If-none-match for aggregated page distribution

• US 8,862,694 B2
• Filed: 06/18/2012
• Issued: 10/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Sabir, Kenny S., Tannous, Sam M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kizou, Hassan
• Assistant Examiner(s): DAYA, TEJIS A
• Application Number:
  US13/525,439
• Publication Number:
  US 20120259952A1
• Time in Patent Office: 848 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/061 for key exchange, e.g. in peer-to-peer networks cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key agreement H04L9/0838
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/123 received data contents, e.g. message integrity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/566 Grouping or aggregating service requests, e.g. for unified processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3226 using a predetermined code, e.g. password, passphrase or PIN network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using passwords in a packet data network H04L63/083

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for page request management for aggregated page content. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for page request management for aggregated page content can include issuing on behalf of a user a request for dynamically aggregated components in a page. The method further can include inserting into a header of the request a key computed as a combination of identifiers for the aggregated components and last modified data for the aggregated components. Finally, the method can include receiving in response to the request a new page of dynamically aggregated components for the user only if the computed key does not match a key computed for the new page. Otherwise, only a response is received indicating that the page has not been modified.

Claims

1. A method for page request management for aggregated page content, the method comprising:

issuing on behalf of a user from a content browser executing in memory of a computer a request for dynamically aggregated components in a page;

inserting into a header of the request a key computed as a combination of identifiers for the aggregated components deemed accessible to the user and last modified data for the aggregated components deemed accessible to the user; and

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receiving in response to the request a new page of dynamically aggregated components for the user only if the computed key does not match a key computed for the new page, but otherwise receiving only a response indicating that the page has not been modified.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a hash of the computed key and inserting the hash into the header in lieu of the computed key.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein inserting into a header of the request a key computed as a combination of identifiers for the aggregated components and last modified data for the aggregated components, comprises inserting into a header of the request an entity tag comprising a key computed as a combination of identifiers for the aggregated components and last modified data for the aggregated components.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein inserting into a header of the request a key computed as a combination of identifiers for the aggregated components and last modified data for the aggregated components, comprises inserting into a header of the request a key computed as a combination of identifiers for the aggregated components, last modified data for the aggregated components and a hierarchical path of each of the aggregated components.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving in response to the request a new page of dynamically aggregated components for the user only if the computed key does not match a key computed for the new page, but otherwise receiving only a response indicating that the page has not been modified, comprises receiving in response to the request a new page of dynamically aggregated components for the user only if the computed key does not match a key computed for a cached form of the page, but otherwise receiving only a response indicating that the page has not been modified.