Methods and apparatus are provided by which a caching system may be populated quickly before its deployment. The techniques described herein employ a capability inherent in most routers to develop a working set of data objects which are then retrieved to populate the cache. The router to which the caching...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6286084?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6286084 - Methods and apparatus for populating a network cache