In the ATGMobileClient project, in-memory caching was explored as a means to improve performance of the ATGProfileManager and its associated view pages. For example, data contained within a profile may change more often than product data as a user may create orders, add/update/delete addresses and other information, making it inappropriate for Core Data caching.

In the ATGProfileManager, the approach to in-memory caching, two factors can cause the cache can be invalidated: