Methods and systems for partial page caching of dynamically generated content

US7509404B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Oracle International Corporation · US

Inventors

• Alok Agrawal · Hyderabad, IN
• Ramkumar Venketaramani · Sunnyvale, US
• Leslie Bruce Lowenthal · Los Gatos, US
• Lawrence Jacobs · Redwood City, US
• Xiang Liu · Marlboro, US
• Shehzaad Nakhoda · Palo Alto, US
• Zheng Zeng · San Jose, US
• Rajiv Mishra · Dallas, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 5, 2001
• Grant date: Mar 24, 2009
• Expiry date: Jun 27, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/9574
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method of servicing a request for a document over a computer network includes independently caching portions of pages called blocks. Each block includes a reference to a data source and code that is adapted to access the data source and to format the data accessed from the data source. When a request for a page is received over a computer network, one or more of the plurality of blocks defined in the script of the requested document may be retrieved from a cache memory. Any block that is not found in the cache memory is dynamically generated and a copy thereof is stored in the cache memory. The requested page may then be assembled from the page blocks retrieved from the cache memory and/or the dynamically generated page blocks.