US 10,652,358 B2Granted

System and method for improving internet communication by using intermediate nodes

AssigneeLuminati Networks Ltd.

InventorsDerry Shribman, Ofer Vilenski

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Abstract

A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The client device accesses an acceleration server to receive a list of available tunnel devices. The requested content is partitioned into slices, and the client device sends a request for the slices to the available tunnel devices. The tunnel devices in turn fetch the slices from the data server, and send the slices to the client device, where the content is reconstructed from the received slices. A client device may also serve as a tunnel device, serving as an intermediate device to other client devices. Similarly, a tunnel device may also serve as a client device for fetching content from a data server. The selection of tunnel devices to be used by a client device may be in the acceleration server, in the client device, or in both. The partition into slices may be overlapping or non-overlapping, and the same slice (or the whole content) may be fetched via multiple tunnel devices.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A method for fetching over the Internet a content stored in a first server by a first device using multiple devices, each device of the multiple devices is identified in the Internet by a respective IP address stored in a memory, the content is partitioned into a plurality of content slices, each of the content slices containing at least part of the content and is identified using a respective content slice identifier, the method fetching one of the content slices comprising:

(i) sending, by the first device, the content slice identifier;
(ii) selecting a device from the multiple devices, in response to the sending by the first device, by selecting the respective stored IP address of the selected device;
(iii) sending, by the selected device, the content slice identifier to the first server;
(iv) sending, by the first server to the selected device, the content slice in response to the sending by the selected device;
(v) receiving, by the selected device, the content slice in response to the sending of the content slice by the first server;
and
(vi) receiving, by the first device, the content slice in response to the receiving of the content slice by the selected device,
wherein each of the multiple devices is a portable or mobile device and comprises or consists of a smartphone that stores, operates, or uses, a mobile operating system,
wherein the steps (i)-(vi) are repeated for each one of the content slices,
wherein the method further comprising, upon receiving of all the content slices, composing, by the first device, the content from all of the received content slices, and
wherein the multiple devices are used as intermediary devices so that the first server is prevented from being aware of the first device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/214,476Filed 10 Dec 2018 · continuation
Priority: 28 Aug 2013
Published: US 2019/0116244 A118 Apr 2019
Granted: 12 May 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification27 codes

H04L 67/60
Network services: scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the…
G06Q 40/08
Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes: insurance
G06Q 50/16
Services: real estate
H04L 43/0864
Delays: round trip delays

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Application61/870,815Us provisional application · filed 28 Aug 2013
Application14/468,836Parent of this division · filed 26 Aug 2014
Application14/930,894Parent of this continuation · filed 3 Nov 2015
US 9,241,044 B2Parent of this division · filed 19 Jan 2016
Application15/663,762Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Jul 2017
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