US 9,871,891 B1 · Predictive prefetching of data from remote client-state cache from server to update local client-state cache

Abstract

Response delay associated with a state-based client-server application can be reduced with utilization of an application state server-side cache. A server caches data for a set of one or more possible states of a client-server application that may follow a current state of the application. The server rapidly responds to a client request with data that corresponds to an appropriate new state of the application in accordance with the application state server-side cache. The server determines that the application will transition to the appropriate new state from the current state of the application with the application state server-side cache based, at least in part, on an operation indicated by the client request.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving input via a user interface (UI) of a client, the input indicating an operation of a state-based client-server application, wherein the UI is associated with the state-based client-server application, and wherein the operation indicates a state transition from a current state to a new state of the state-based client-server application;
supplying a server with a client request;
and
receiving from the server a subset of a hierarchy of data units pre-computed and stored at the server, each data unit of the subset corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of successive states of the state-based client-server application that may follow the new state, the subset including a first data unit that corresponds to a subsequent state of the plurality of successive states that may follow the new state.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/362,262Filed 28 Nov 2016 · continuation

Priority

6 Apr 2006

Granted

16 Jan 2018

Term ends

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Classification11 codes

G06F 9/542
Interprogram communication: event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
G06F 3/0482
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…
H04L 9/40
Cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communications; Network security protocols: network security protocols
H04L 67/01
Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications: protocols

Family

Application60/744,388Us provisional application · filed 6 Apr 2006

Application11/691,300Parent of this continuation · filed 26 Mar 2007

Application13/230,691Parent of this division · filed 12 Sep 2011

US 8,019,811 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Sep 2011

Application14/199,895Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Mar 2014

US 8,832,184 B1Parent of this division · filed 9 Sep 2014

US 9,531,838 B1Parent of this continuation

Application14/199,895Parent of this division

Application13/230,691Parent of this continuation

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Predictive prefetching of data from remote client-state cache from server to update local client-state cache

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Predictive prefetching of data from remote client-state cache from server to update local client-state cache

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Abstract

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