Provisional execution of dynamic content component

• US 9,298,455 B1
• Filed: 03/11/2015
• Issued: 03/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Instart Logic Incorporated (Akamai Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kolam, Hariharan, Blum, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): Osman, Ramy M
• Application Number:
  US14/644,791
• Time in Patent Office: 384 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/76 Adapting program code to run in a different environment; Porting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching

Abstract

Expediting content delivery is disclosed. A request for content is received from a requestor. A cached component of the requested content that includes at least some cached executable content is identified. The cached component of the requested content is provided to the requestor for provisional execution. It is determined whether a change, if any, in the requested content may invalidate the provisional execution. In the event it is determined that the change in the requested content may invalidate the provisional execution, the requestor is instructed to abandon the provisional execution.

Claims

1. A system for expediting content delivery, comprising:

a communication interface configured to receive a request for content from a requestor; and

a processor coupled with the communication interface and configured to;

identify a cached component of the requested content that includes at least some cached executable content;

identify that the cached component includes the at least some executable content that is to be programmatically executed by the requestor;

provide the cached component of the requested content to the requestor for provisional execution prior to verifying that the cached component of the requested content is still valid, wherein provisionally executing the cached component by the requestor includes preserving an ability to abandon a result of the programmatic provisional execution of the at least some executable content and provisionally executing the cached component by the requestor includes executing the cached component in a protected execution environment that is separate from a main execution environment;

determine whether a change, if any, in the content of the requested content may invalidate the provisional execution; and

in the event it is determined that the change in the requested content may invalidate the provisional execution, instruct the requestor to abandon the provisional execution that has been already started by the requestor, wherein the requestor abandons the result of the provisional execution in response to the instruction to abandon the provisional execution.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein provisionally executing the cached component includes executing the cached component in the protected execution environment of a worker thread that is separate from the main execution environment of a main thread that would otherwise execute the cached component for a normal non-provisional execution.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the communication interface is further configured to send a responsive request for the requested content to a content provider in response to the received request and receive the requested content from the content provider.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the received requested content has been dynamically generated by the content provider in response to the responsive request for the requested content.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the determining whether the change, if any, in the requested content may invalidate the provisional execution includes analyzing the received requested content to determine whether a content component corresponding to the cached component in the received requested content has been modified.

6. The system of claim 3, wherein the determining whether the change, if any, in the requested content may invalidate the provisional execution includes determining that the received requested content is a modified version of a previous requested content version corresponding to the cached content component.

7. The system of claim 3, wherein the processor is further configured to analyze the received requested content to identify any remaining components of the requested content that has not been already provided from a cache of cached content components in response to the request for content from the requestor.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein sending the cached component for provisional execution includes allowing a recipient of the cached component to execute the cached executable content of the cached component prior to verifying that the cached component has not been updated.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein instructing the requestor to abandon the provisional execution includes instructing the requestor to reload the requested content.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein instructing the requestor to abandon the provisional execution includes instructing the requestor to abandon a protected environment that is provisionally executing the cached component.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to, in the event it is determined that the requested content has not changed, instruct the requestor to validate the provisional execution.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein validating the provisional execution includes committing changes made by the provisional execution.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the requestor is a web browser.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the cached component is a subset of the requested content.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the requested content is identified as dynamic content that should not be cached in entirety.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is an edge server of a content delivery network.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein the requested content includes a webpage.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the cached executable content of the cached component includes a JavaScript script.

19. A method for expediting content delivery, comprising:

receiving a request for content from a requestor at a server;

identifying a cached component of the requested content that includes at least some cached executable content;

identifying that the cached component includes the at least some executable content that is to be programmatically executed by the requestor;

providing the cached component of the requested content to the requestor for provisional execution prior to verifying that the cached component of the requested content is still valid, wherein provisionally executing the cached component by the requestor includes preserving an ability to abandon a result of the programmatic provisional execution of the at least some executable content and provisionally executing the cached component by the requestor includes executing the cached component in a protected execution environment that is separate from a main execution environment;

determining whether a change, if any, in the content of the requested content may invalidate the provisional execution; and

in the event it is determined that the change in the requested content may invalidate the provisional execution, instructing the requestor to abandon the provisional execution that has been already started by the requestor, wherein the requestor abandons the result of the provisional execution in response to the instruction to abandon the provisional execution.

20. A computer program product for expediting content delivery, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:

receiving a request for content from a requestor;

identifying a cached component of the requested content that includes at least some cached executable content;

identifying that the cached component includes the at least some executable content that is to be programmatically executed by the requestor;

providing the cached component of the requested content to the requestor for provisional execution prior to verifying that the cached component of the requested content is still valid, wherein provisionally executing the cached component by the requestor includes preserving an ability to abandon a result of the programmatic provisional execution of the at least some executable content and provisionally executing the cached component by the requestor includes executing the cached component in a protected execution environment that is separate from a main execution environment;

determining whether a change, if any, in the content of the requested content may invalidate the provisional execution; and

in the event it is determined that the change in the requested content may invalidate the provisional execution, instructing the requestor to abandon the provisional execution that has been already started by the requestor, wherein the requestor abandons the result of the provisional execution in response to the instruction to abandon the provisional execution.