An custom page server is provided with user preferences organized into templates stored in compact data structures and the live data used to fill the templates stored local to the page server which is handing user requests for custom pages. One process is executed on the page server for every request. The process is provided a user template for the user making the request, where the user template is either generated from user preferences or retrieved from a cache of recently used user templates. Each user process is provided access to a large region of shared memory which contains all of the live data needed to fill any user template. Typically, the pages served are news pages, giving the user a custom selection of stock quotes, news headlines, sports scores, weather, and the like. With the live data stored in a local, shared memory, any custom page can be built within the page server, eliminating the need to make requests from other servers for portions of the live data. While the shared memory might include RAM (random access memory) and disk storage, in many computer systems, it is faster to store all the live data in RAM.

Dynamic page generator

A message is provided to a tracking server system in response to a client system referencing a predetermined resource locator that corresponds to a resource external to the tracking server system. The tracking server system indirectly provides for the client system to have an informational element selectable by the client system, where the informational element is graphically identified on the client system with informational content obtainable from a content server system through use of a content resource locator. The informational element includes a tracking resource locator, referencing the tracking server system, and data identifying the informational element. The selection of the informational element causes the client system to use the tracking resource locator to provide the data to the tracking server system and to use the content resource locator to obtain the informational content from the content server system.

Method and apparatus for redirection of server external hyper-link references

Resource requests made by clients of origin servers in a network are intercepted by reflector mechanisms and selectively reflected to other servers called repeaters. The reflectors select a best repeater from a set of possible repeaters and redirect the client to the selected best repeater. The client then makes the request of the selected best repeater. The resource is possibly rewritten to replace at least some of the resource identifiers contained therein with modified resource identifiers designating the repeater instead of the origin server.

Optimized network resource location

An improved method and apparatus is used for storing and delivering information over the Internet and using Internet technologies. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method and apparatus for maintaining statistics on a server (204) is disclosed. According to an alternative embodiment, a method and apparatus (204) is disclosed for predicting data that a client device (100) may request from a server on a network. In another embodiment of the present invention, a method and apparatus (204) is disclosed for managing bandwith between a client device (100) and a network. According to yet another embodiment, a method and apparatus (204) is disclosed for validating a collection of data (200). According to yet another embodiment, a method for providing notification to clients (100) from servers (204) is disclosed.

A method and apparatus for storing and delivering documents on the internet

The invention can enable monitoring of the display of content by a computer system. Moreover, the invention can enable monitoring of the displayed content to produce monitoring information from which conclusions may be deduced regarding the observation of the displayed content by an observer. The invention can also enable monitoring of the display at a content display site of content that is provided by a content provider site over a network to the content display site. Additionally, the invention can enable the expeditious provision of updated and/or tailored content over a network from a content provider site to a content display site so that the content provider's current and appropriately tailored content is always displayed at the content display site. Aspects of the invention related to transfer of content over a network are generally applicable to any type of network. However, it is contemplated that the invention can be particularly useful with a computer network, including private computer networks (e.g., America Online™) and public computer networks (e.g., the Internet). In particular, the invention can be advantageously used with computer networks or portions of computer networks over which video and/or audio content are transferred from one network site to another network site for observation, such as the World Wide Web portion of the Internet.

Content display monitor

A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing mirrored site administrators (480) with the number of hits from a proxy's document cache (465) and for dispatching document requests in a proxy (410) to more efficiently allocate the document cache space (465) within the proxy (410). A proxy (410) includes a document cache (465) storing recently requested documents, and maintains information regarding requests from the client (1) that are serviced from the proxy's document cache (465) such as the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the requested document and the number of cached responses. This information is provided by the proxy (410) to a remote site administrator (480). In this manner, remote site administrators (480) can more accurately track total hits. According to another aspect of the present invention, the proxy (410) implements a dispatching scheme for client requests that results in a more efficient allocation of the proxy's document cache space (465).

Method and apparatus for providing remote site administrators with user hits on mirrored web sites

A method and apparatus for dispatching document requests in a proxy to more efficiently allocate the document cache space within the proxy is provided. A proxy includes a document cache storing recently requested documents. The proxy is coupled to a client and to a remote server. A Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) is included in the document request. The proxy forwards the request to one of a plurality of proxy servers based upon the URL. According to another aspect of the present invention, the proxy performs a hash function on the URL that maps the URL to exactly one of the plurality of proxy servers. Advantageously, in this manner, mutually exclusive portions of the Web's content can be allocated to particular proxy servers.

Lee S. Mighdoll

Papers

Method and apparatus for providing remote site administrators with user hits on mirrored web sites

Method and apparatus for dispatching document requests in a proxy

Verfahren und vorrichtung zur lieferung von benutzertreffern auf gespiegelten websites an entfernte site-administratoren