Efficient unified replication and caching protocol
US6088721A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 20, 1998 |
| Grant date | Jul 11, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 20, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L69/22
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A protocol that provides assurance of consistent replication of objects from a server to caching servers, for example, over data communication networks such as the Internet. It is an application-layer protocol which guarantees delivery of objects such as files. This protocol insures that objects sent by a source machine such as a server to any number of destination machines such as caching servers actually arrive at the intended caching servers even when the caching servers are temporarily unavailable, for example, due to failure or network partition.
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