Patent 7996483 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on August, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Adaptive caching techniques are described. In an implementation, a head end defines a plurality of cache periods having associated criteria. Request data for content is obtained and utilized to associate the content with the defined cache periods based on a comparison of the request data with the associated criteria. Then, the content is cached at the head end for the associated cache period.