Optimizing bandwidth usage and improving performance for web page caching

• US 9,596,316 B2
• Filed: 02/03/2016
• Issued: 03/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Cuduvalli Ravikanth Rao, Siddharth, Shamanna, Guru Prasad
• Primary Examiner(s): WON, MICHAEL YOUNG
• Application Number:
  US15/014,302
• Publication Number:
  US 20170026485A1
• Time in Patent Office: 405 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/217
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5682 Policies or rules for updating, deleting or replacing the stored data

Abstract

Improving of bandwidth usage and performance for web page caching. Responsive to a subsequent request for a web page, a server only returns the set of web page portions of the requested web page that are not in a browser cache, have expired, and/or have changed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a server from a browser, a first request for a first web page;

transmitting, by the server to the browser, the first web page, wherein;

the first web page includes at least a first set of web page portions, and

the first set of web page portions includes at least a main content fragment;

transmitting, by the server to the browser, a first set of web page metadata, wherein the first set of web page metadata includes, at least;

a first set of web page portion definitions corresponding to the first set of web page portions,

a first set of request dates,

a first set of expiration dates corresponding to the first set of web page portions,

a first set of caching policies corresponding to the first set of web page portions,

a first set of related web pages,

a first set of related advertisements,

a first site map, and

a first main content fragment corresponding to the main content fragment;

receiving, by the server from the browser, a second request for the first web page, wherein;

the second request includes a second set of web page metadata, and

the second set of web page metadata includes, at least;

a second set of web page portion definitions,

a second set of request dates, and

a second set of caching policies;

correlating, by the server, the second set of web page metadata to the first set of web page metadata, wherein;

the second set of web page portion definitions correlates to the first set of web page portion definitions, and

the second set of request dates correlates to the first set of expiration dates;

determining, by the server, a subset of the first set of web page portions that has;

changed, based on the second set of request dates and the second set of web page portion definitions, or

not been cached by the browser, based on the second set of caching policies;

transmitting, by the server to the browser, a second set of web page portions, wherein;

the second set of web page portions comprises web page portions correlating to the subset of the first set of web page portions, and

the second set of web page portions comprises web page portions correlating to the subset of the first set of web page portions that has changed or not been cached by the browser; and

transmitting, by the server to the browser, a third set of web page metadata corresponding to the second set of web page portions, wherein the third set of web page metadata includes, at least;

a third set of web page portion definitions,

a third set of request dates,

a third set of expiration dates,

a third set of caching policies,

a third set of related web pages,

a third set of related advertisements,

a third site map, and

a third main content fragment.

2. A method comprising:

transmitting, by a browser to a server, a first request for a first web page;

receiving, by the browser from the server, the first web page, wherein;

the first web page includes at least a first set of web page portions, and

the first set of web page portions includes at least a main content fragment;

receiving, by the browser from the server, a first set of web page metadata, wherein the first set of web page metadata includes, at least;

a first set of web page portion definitions corresponding to the first set of web page portions,

a first set of request dates,

a first set of expiration dates corresponding to the first set of web page portions,

a first set of caching policies corresponding to the first set of web page portions,

a first set of related web pages,

a first set of related advertisements,

a first site map, and

a first main content fragment corresponding to the main content fragment;

caching, by the browser, the first set of web page portions based on the first set of caching policies;

transmitting, by the browser to the server, a second request for the first web page, wherein;

the second request includes a second set of web page metadata, and

the second set of web page metadata includes, at least;

the first set of web page portion definitions,

the first set of request dates, and

the first set of caching policies;

receiving, by the browser from the server, a second set of web page portions, wherein;

the second set of web page portions comprises a subset of the first set of web page portions, and

the second set of web page portions comprises web page portions correlating to the subset of the first set of web page portions that has changed or not been cached by the browser;

receiving, by the browser from the server, a third set of web page metadata corresponding to the second set of web page portions, wherein the third set of web page metadata includes, at least;

a third set of web page portion definitions,

a third set of request dates,

a third set of expiration dates,

a third set of caching policies,

a third set of related web pages,

a third set of related advertisements,

a third site map, and

a third main content fragment; and

caching, by the browser, the second set of web page portions based on the third set of caching policies.