Determining optimal retrieval points mechanism for RSS documents

Really Simple Syndication or RSS Technology helps users to receive updated contents using an aggregator from web sites. The aggregator is scheduled at time intervals to feed automatically. However, setting time intervals may cause a delay between the publication of new contents at a publisher site and the appearance at the aggregator, or no updated contents may occur. Then, we propose a mechanism to determine an optimal retrieval point for RSS feeds. The mechanism reduces the delay of retrieving contents. The study results show that the retrieval point can reduce 21% of the delay in retrieving contents in comparison with a previous research.