User Behavior-Driven Background Cache Refreshing

A method for providing social feeds from a plurality of third party sites to a user at a host site, comprising:

• detecting the user's online activity related to the social feeds provided for the user at the host site, the online activity identifying the interactive behavioral pattern of the user in relation to the social feeds from the plurality of third party sites;
• generating a refresh schedule for the user to refresh cache entries of social feeds at the host site based on the user's online activity, wherein the refresh schedule spans multiple refresh cycles, the refresh schedule predicting a likelihood of receiving a subsequent request from the user for one or more of the social feeds from the plurality of third party sites, the refresh schedule capturing refresh requirements for each of the plurality of third party sites;
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• refreshing the cache entries of social feeds for the user at the host site from the one or more of the plurality of third party sites at an allotted time specified in the refresh schedule so as to maintain fresh social feeds for the user prior to receiving the user's request for the social feed.

A system for providing social feeds from a plurality of third party sites to a user at a host site, comprising:

• a server equipped with a search engine and a refresh algorithm, the search engine configured to query one or more third party sites and receive one or more social feeds from the one or more third party sites;
• the refresh algorithm includes a schedule builder and a schedule executor, the schedule builder configured to,
• retrieve one or more access logs of the user, wherein the access logs capture the user's online behavior;
• analyze the information within the access logs of the user related to the social feeds from the plurality of third party sites;
• compute a refresh schedule for the user to refresh cache entries of social feeds at the host site based on the analysis, the refresh schedule predicting a likelihood of receiving a subsequent request from the user for one or more of the social feeds from the one or more of the plurality of third party sites;
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• the schedule executor configured to refresh the cache entries of social feeds for the user at the host site from the one or more of the plurality of third party sites at an allotted time specified in the refresh schedule so as to maintain fresh social feeds for the user prior to receiving the user's subsequent request for the social feed.