Refreshing cached data based on content identifier map

• US 8,380,930 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2009
• Issued: 02/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Katz, Gregory Talbott, Polyakovsky, Yury
• Primary Examiner(s): Alsip, Michael
• Application Number:
  US12/349,262
• Publication Number:
  US 20100174861A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,505 Days
• Field of Search: 711/118, 711/144, 711/E12.022, 707/999.02, 709/226
• US Class Current: 711/118
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching

Abstract

A system for refreshing cached data based on content update frequency includes an application/presentation layer coupled to a caching layer, the caching layer including cached content, and a content management system coupled to the application/presentation layer, the content management system configured to provide a content invalidation message to the caching layer informing the caching layer when the cached content is updated.

Claims

1. A system for refreshing cached content, comprising:

an application/presentation layer coupled to a content management system, wherein the application/presentation layer is configured to;

generate page content based on a plurality of content objects retrieved from the content management system;

determine a plurality of content identifiers based on the plurality of content objects, wherein each of the plurality of content identifiers corresponds to a respective one of the plurality of content objects; and

insert an invalidation header including the plurality of content identifiers into the generated page content;

a caching layer operatively coupled to the application/presentation layer, and configured to;

receive the generated page content containing the invalidation header from the application/presentation layer; and

update a map of content identifiers to generated pages, based on the invalidation header;

wherein the content management system is configured to provide a content invalidation message to the caching layer in response to a content editor tool of the content management system updating a first object stored in the content management system, the content invalidation message including a first content identifier uniquely identifying the first content object, and

wherein the caching layer is configured to, upon receiving the content invalidation message, determine one or more cached pages that are invalid based on the included first content identifier, based on the map of content identifiers to generated pages.

2. The system of claim 1, in which the caching layer provides the cached content if it has no content invalidation message for any cached content.

3. The system of claim 1, in which if the caching layer has a content invalidation message for any cached content, the caching layer requests new content from the application presentation layer.

4. The system of claim 3, in which the application/presentation layer requests the new content from the content management system.

5. The system of claim 4, in which the application/presentation layer tracks a content identifier that identifies the new content delivered to the caching layer.

6. The system of claim 1, in which the content management system is configured to provide the content invalidation message upon query from the caching layer.

7. A method for refreshing cached content, comprising:

receiving a plurality of pages from an application/presentation layer, wherein the application/presentation layer is configured to generate the plurality of pages by, for each of the plurality of pages;

generating the page based on a plurality of content objects retrieved from a content management system;

determining a plurality of content identifiers based on the plurality of content objects, wherein each of the plurality of content identifiers corresponds to a respective one of the plurality of content objects; and

inserting an invalidation header including the plurality of content identifiers into the generated page;

caching the plurality of pages in a caching layer;

maintaining a map of content identifiers to the plurality of pages, based on the invalidation headers in each of the plurality of pages;

receiving a content invalidation message generated in response to a content editor tool of the content management system updating a first content object stored in the content management system, wherein the content invalidation message includes a first content identifier uniquely identifying the first content object;

determining one or more invalid pages in the cached plurality of pages, based on the maintained map and further based on the first content identifier included in the content invalidation message; and

requesting updated content for each of the one or more invalid pages.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising receiving the content invalidation message from the content management system, wherein the content invalidation message informs the caching layer when the content is updated.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising providing the cached content in the absence of a content invalidation messages.

10. The method of claim 7, in which the cached content is a web page and a frequency with which the web page is rendered and cached is determined by the frequency of updates to the content contained within the web page.

11. The method of claim 10, in which the caching layer receives a content identifier that identifies new content delivered to the caching layer.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program which, when executed, performs an operation for refreshing cached content, comprising:

receiving a plurality of pages from an application/presentation layer, wherein the application/presentation layer is configured to generate the plurality of pages by, for each of the plurality of pages;

generating the page based on a plurality of content objects retrieved from a content management system;

determining a plurality of content identifiers based on the plurality of content objects, wherein each of the plurality of content identifiers corresponds to a respective one of the plurality of content objects; and

inserting an invalidation header including the plurality of content identifiers into the generated page;

caching the plurality of pages in a caching layer;

maintaining a map of content identifiers to the plurality of pages, based on the invalidation headers in each of the plurality of pages;

receiving a content invalidation message generated in response to a content editor tool of the content management system updating a first content object stored in the content management system, wherein the content invalidation message includes a first content identifier uniquely identifying the first content object;

determining one or more invalid pages in the cached plurality of pages, based on the maintained map and further based on the first content identifier included in the content invalidation message; and

requesting updated content for each of the one or more invalid pages.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the content invalidation message is provided by the content management system, and wherein the content invalidation message informs the caching layer when the content is updated.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, in which the cached content is a web page and a frequency with which the web page is rendered and cached is determined by the frequency of updates to the content contained within the web page.