Proxy Server Caching for Dynamic Web Content Fragment Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current dynamic content caching systems face challenges in improving network traffic performance without complicating system configurations and disrupting the processing workflow of web pages, especially when dealing with dynamically generated content.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses proxy servers to cache dynamic content items and fragments, allowing the content server to generate only non-cached items while maintaining the original processing workflow and semantics, and using metadata to determine cacheable items and their conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If dynamic content is cached using specially formatted web pages, then network traffic performance is improved, but user experience is significantly reduced and processing workflow becomes complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments dynamic content into cacheable fragments (e.g., header, footer, sidebar) and non-cacheable portions. By dividing the web page into manageable segments, the system can cache only the appropriate portions without disrupting the overall page structure or user experience. This allows performance improvement through caching while maintaining normal web page functionality and semantics.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a proxy server as an intermediary between the content server and the web browser. The proxy server handles the complex tasks of identifying cacheable fragments, managing cache validity, and assembling cached portions with dynamic content. This intermediary approach allows caching to improve network traffic performance without requiring changes to the original web page format or user interaction model.
2Productivity
If dynamic content is cached using specially formatted web pages, then network traffic performance is improved, but system configuration complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The proxy server acts as a mediator that handles all the complexity of fragment identification, cache validity management, and content assembly. This allows the content server to remain simple and unchanged, while the proxy absorbs the configuration complexity. The original web pages maintain their standard format without requiring special formatting or complex configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes parameters such as cache validity time, fragment identification criteria, and caching thresholds to optimize performance without altering the fundamental system architecture. By adjusting these parameters, the system can adapt to different content types and traffic patterns while maintaining simplicity in the overall configuration approach.
3Productivity
If fragments of web pages are cached separately, then caching capability is achieved, but processing workflow and semantics become considerably more complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The proxy server serves as an intermediary that manages the complexity of fragment caching and assembly. It automatically identifies which fragments can be cached, handles cache validity periods, and assembles cached fragments with dynamically generated content. This eliminates the need for complex processing workflows on the content server or client, as the proxy handles these tasks transparently.
Solution Approach 2:
By segmenting the web page into distinct cacheable fragments, the system enables independent caching of each fragment without affecting the overall page processing workflow. The proxy server manages these segments systematically, retrieving and assembling them as needed, which simplifies the overall processing workflow compared to caching entire pages or using specially formatted pages.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for processing dynamic content are described herein. A system receives a request for content that includes an item cached by a proxy. The system issues another request to a content server to generate the other items that are not cached, without disrupting the process workflow of the original request. The system combines the items generated by the content server with the item cached by the proxy and sends the combined content to a destination.