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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2001
Daniel M. Lewin, Charlestown, MA (US);
Anne E. Lewin, Legal Representative, Charlestown, MA (US);
Andrew Thomas Davis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Samuel Dov Gendler, Alameda, CA (US);
Marty Kagan, Burlingame, CA (US);
Jay Gunvantral Parikh, Redwood City, CA (US);
William Edward Weihl, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniel M. Lewin, Charlestown, MA (US);
Anne E. Lewin, legal representative, Charlestown, MA (US);
Andrew Thomas Davis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Samuel Dov Gendler, Alameda, CA (US);
Marty Kagan, Burlingame, CA (US);
Jay Gunvantral Parikh, Redwood City, CA (US);
William Edward Weihl, San Francisco, CA (US);
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention enables a content provider to dynamically assemble content at the edge of the Internet, preferably on content delivery network (CDN) edge servers. Preferably, the content provider leverages an 'edge side include' (ESI) markup language that is used to define Web page fragments for dynamic assembly at the edge. Dynamic assembly improves site performance by catching the objects that comprise dynamically generated pages at the edge of the Internet, close to the end user. The content provider designs and develops the business logic to form and assemble the pages, for example, by using the ESI language within its development environment. Instead of being assembled by an application/web server in a centralized data center, the application/web server sends a page template and content fragments to a CDN edge server where the page is assembled. Each content fragment can have its own cacheability profile to manage the 'freshness' of the content. Once a user requests a page (template), the edge server examines its cache for the included fragments and assembles the page on-the-fly.