International Business Machines Corporation

Patrick S O'Donnell

Al Chakra

Kevin L Ortega

Roy Frank Brabson

Lap Thiet Huynh

Constantinos Kassimis

Arthur James Stagg

Carroll Eugene Fulkerson, Jr

Wesley McMillian Devine

John L Brady

A content serving data processing system is configured for trending topic cache eviction management. The system includes a computing system communicatively coupled to different sources of content objects over a computer communications network. The system also includes a cache storing different cached content objects retrieved from the different content sources. The system yet further includes a cache eviction module. The module includes program code enabled to manage cache eviction of the content objects in the cache by marking selected ones of the content objects as invalid in accordance with a specified cache eviction strategy, detect a trending topic amongst the retrieved content objects, and override the marking of one of the selected ones of the content objects as invalid and keeping the one of the selected ones of the content objects in the cache when the one of the selected ones of the content objects relates to the trending topic.

Trending topic driven cache eviction management

Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for providing transactional quality of service providing transaction service level information from an application requesting a data transmission transaction to a communication process executing on a data processing system. The transaction service level information is provided separate from the data for the data transmission transaction. A quality of service level associated with the data transmission transaction is determined based on the transaction service level information received from the application. Other embodiments also provide for establishing a quality of service level without reference to transaction data content while further embodiments provide for establishing a quality of service level for responses.

Methods, systems and computer program products for providing transactional quality of service

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