Content delivery for client-server protocols with user affinities using connection end-point proxies
US7650416B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 12, 2003 |
| Grant date | Jan 19, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 9, 2025 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W4/20
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In a network supporting transactions between clients and servers over a network path having operating characteristics to overcome, data is transported to overcome the operating characteristics using user affinities and dynamic user location information to selectively preload data, or representations, signatures, segments, etc. of data, in order to overcome the one or more operating characteristic. Examples of operating characteristics to overcome include bandwidth limitations, errors and latency. The dynamic location information can be stored in data structures accessible by agents of a data server and the data structures are populated based on user activities with respect to proxies associated with user locations, or the dynamic location information can be obtained implicitly as proxies maintain connections after termination by clients and the use of those maintained connections for preloading of data for the users associated with those clients. The data being preloaded can be protocol-specific data or protocol-independent data.
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