公开(公告)号：DE60225476D1

公开(公告)日：2008-04-17

申请号：DE60225476

申请日：2002-12-18

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： AGARWALLA RAJESH WINCHESTER ,  CHALLENGER JAMES ,  COPELAND GEORGE ,  IYENGAR ARUN ,  LINEHAN MARK ,  MEDURI SUBBARAO

IPC: G06F12/00 ,  H04L29/06 ,  G06F13/00 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: A method, a system, an apparatus, and a computer program product are presented for fragment caching. After a message is received at a computing device that contains a cache management unit, a fragment in the message body of the message is cached. Subsequent requests for the fragment at the cache management unit result in a cache hit. The cache management unit operates equivalently in support of fragment caching operations without regard to whether the computing device acts as a client, a server, or a hub located throughout the network; in other words, the fragment caching technique is uniform throughout a network. Cache ID rules accompany a fragment from an origin server; the cache ID rules describe a method for forming a unique cache ID for the fragment such that dynamic content can be cached away from an origin server.