Method and system for adaptive prefetching

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including code for data processing in a network environment, the code upon execution operable to:

• generate a graph having one or more links from one web page to one or more other web pages;
• assign a user weight and a transaction weight to each link in the graph, the transaction weight indicating a relative importance of a web page by a source of the web page compared to other web pages at the source and the user weight indicating a priority of the user;
• receive a request from a user for a particular web page, the request being associated with a link in the graph;
• update the graph in response to the request and the particular web page;
• queue the request with other requests, all requests having a priority and an associated link with an associated user weight and transaction weight;
• update the user weight and the transaction weight of each link in the graph based on the particular web page and the user;
• prefetch one or more other web pages linked to the particular page in accordance with the transaction weight;
• service the request based on the user weight and the priority in response to the request having a higher updated priority than all other requests waiting to be serviced.

A system for data processing in a network environment, comprising:

• means for generating a graph having one or more links from one web page to one or more other web pages;
• means for assigning a user weight and a transaction weight to each link in the graph, the transaction weight indicating a relative importance of a web page by a source of the web page compared to other web pages at the source and the user weight indicating a priority of the user;
• means for receiving a request from a user for a particular web page, the request being associated with a link in the graph;
• means for updating the graph in response to the request and the particular web page;
• means for queuing the request with other requests, all requests having a priority and an associated link with an associated user weight and transaction weight;
• means for updating the user weight and the transaction weight of each link in the graph based on the particular web page and the user;
• means for prefetching one or more other web pages linked to the particular page in accordance with the transaction weight;
• means for servicing the request based on the user weight and the priority in response to the request having a higher updated priority than all other requests waiting to be serviced.