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Configuring a cached website file removal using a pulled data list

  • US 9,384,208 B2
  • Filed: 02/20/2013
  • Issued: 07/05/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for configuring a server computer to clear a cache for a website, the method comprising the steps of:

  • communicating at a regular interval, over a communications network from the server computer acting as an edge server and a cache proxy in a content delivery network (CDN), a request, including a self-identifying Internet Protocol (IP) address, for a data list identifying at least one website for which to remove at least one website file stored in the cache on the server computer, and generated from a database query, run since the last regular interval, and returning at least one job record comprising a job record identification data, a website identification data and a clear cache job type data, each of the at least one job record;

    not being associated, in a database coupled to the communications network, with at least one job check in record in the database, the at least one job check in record comprising the job record identification data and the self-identifying IP address and indicating that the at least one website file has previously been removed from the cache during a time interval;

    analyzing, using the server computer, the data list received over the communications network to identify the website for which to remove the at least one website file from the cache;

    based on the analyzing step, removing, using the server computer, the at least one website file from the cache; and

    transmitting, from the server computer, to a central software running on an other server computer, at least one instruction, to be executed by the other server computer, to write the at least one job check in record, comprising the job record identification data and the self-identifying IP address to the database.

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