Internet upstream request compression
US5938737A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 14, 1997 |
| Grant date | Aug 17, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 14, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L69/04
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Interactive internet activities are a very popular means for gathering information for business, personal, medical, entertainment and other purposes. Most internet interaction is asymmetrical in nature in that a client's requests for information are much smaller (in data size) than the resulting information delivered by the server. Although the client/internet link is inherently asymmetrical, there remains a great deal of interaction and overhead required between the client and the server that increases the bandwidth needs for the client's upstream request channel. There are many advantages to reducing this upstream traffic volume and thereby making the internet interaction even more asymmetrical. Such compression of request data could allow more clients to utilize a single upstream data path instead of separate paths.
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