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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2005
Prabakar Sundarrajan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Prakash Khemani, San Jose, CA (US);
Kailash Kailash, San Jose, CA (US);
Ajay Soni, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajiv Sinha, San Jose, CA (US);
Saravana Annamalaisami, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bharath Bhushan KR, Bangalore, IN;
Anil Kumar, Bangalore, IN;
Prabakar Sundarrajan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Prakash Khemani, San Jose, CA (US);
Kailash Kailash, San Jose, CA (US);
Ajay Soni, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajiv Sinha, San Jose, CA (US);
Saravana Annamalaisami, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bharath Bhushan KR, Bangalore, IN;
Anil Kumar, Bangalore, IN;
Citrix Systems, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed towards a method and system for providing granular timed invalidation of dynamically generated objects stored in a cache. The techniques of the present invention incorporates the ability to configure the expiration time of objects stored by the cache to fine granular time intervals, such as the granularity of time intervals provided by a packet processing timer of a packet processing engine. As such, the present invention can cache objects with expiry times down to very small intervals of time. This characteristic is referred to as 'invalidation granularity.' By providing this fine granularity in expiry time, the cache of the present invention can cache and serve objects that frequently change, sometimes even many times within a second. One technique is to leverage the packet processing timers used by the device of the present invention that are able operate at time increments on the order of milliseconds to permit invalidation or expiry granularity down to 10 ms or less.