ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,680, issued on March 4, was assigned to OPEN TEXT INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Smart caching based on reputation information" was invented by Hal Case Lonas Jr. (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Thomas W. Helvey (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems and methods for providing a smart cache. In embodiments, a variable time to live (TTL) may be calculated and associated with data as it is stored in a cache. The variable TTL may be calculated based upon reputation and/or category information related to the source of the data. The reputation and/or category information may include TTL modifiers for a...