US 2008/0177894 A1 · Methods and Apparatus For Improving Interactions Between Multi-Server Web Environments and Web Browsers

Abstract

Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus that improve the perceived responsiveness of a multi-server web site or web environment to web requests issued by web browsers. In one aspect, the methods and apparatus operate by determining a likely sequence of web pages to be accessed by users. The methods and apparatus then incorporate information identifying web pages and web page content likely to be requested later in the sequence in web pages responsive to web page requests received earlier in the sequence. In one such method, the URL of a second web is incorporated in a first web page that is expected to be requested before the second web page. A web client receiving the first web page will then issue a DNS request for address information corresponding to the URL of the second web page even if no request has been received for the second web page. Thus, the probability of a DNS system cache miss occurring when a web request for the second web page is actually received by the web client is significantly reduced.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

identifying movement from a first web page to a second web page as an expected transition, where the first web page is stored on a first server having a first hostname and the second web page is stored on a second server having a second hostname, and wherein the second hostname is different from the first hostname;
selecting identification information for the second web page that can be used to issue a DNS request for address information needed to service a web request for the second web page;
associating the identification information for the second web page with the first web page;
and
saving the association of the identification information for the second web page with the first web page to computer memory.

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A system comprising:

a web site comprising a plurality of web servers, at least first and second web servers of the plurality of web servers having URLs with hostnames different from one another, wherein each of the first and second web servers with hostnames different from one another provide content used to produce a particular web page;
a computer memory coupled to the web site, the computer memory storing a computer program configured to perform operations for managing the web site when executed by digital processing apparatus;
and
a digital processing apparatus coupled to the web site and the computer memory, the digital processing apparatus configured to execute the computer program, wherein when the computer program is executed, the system is configured to identity that the particular web page is produced using content provided by the first and second servers, wherein the first and second servers have different hostnames;
to change the hostname associated with content used in the particular web page provided by the second web server to the hostname of the first web server;
and to copy the content with the changed hostname to the first web server.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Methods and Apparatus For Improving Interactions Between Multi-Server Web Environments and Web Browsers

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Methods and Apparatus For Improving Interactions Between Multi-Server Web Environments and Web Browsers

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Abstract

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