Systems for improved multi-channel network connectivity performance and security

A system for managing and routing multi-channel network traffic to improve network connectivity, performance, and security, the system comprising one or more network devices capable of communicating directly with one or more target computer host without requiring an intermediate remote server optionally using one or simultaneously two or more of a plurality of data channels and, wherein each data channel optionally is selected from the group consisting of a cellular channel, a Wi-Fi channel, and a local device-to-device channel selected from the group consisting of a Bluetooth channel, a Wi-Fi direct channel, a USB channel, a long term evolution (LTE) direct channel, and a ZigBee channel and wherein some or all of the network devices are configured to operate a virtual private network (VPN) service application, optionally implemented as an operating system module or as an operating system service, wherein the VPN service application running on any such network device comprises a routing module, optionally consisting of a user datagram protocol (UDP) translator and a transmission control protocol (TCP) translator, wherein the translators have at least one database table which maintains the data communication state of the network device(s), and wherein the VPN service or application running on the network device(s) can be configured to perform operations comprising:

• a. establishing a virtual network interface and routing none, some, or all outgoing client data packets from the network device's applications or operating system to the virtual network interface to form a set of outgoing client data packets;
• b. reading, optionally extracting, and then modifying one or more data packet(s) from the set of outgoing client data packets from the virtual network interface and optionally extracting data therefrom to form one or more set(s) of modified outgoing client data packets;
• c. assigning each data packet from the one or more set(s) of the modified outgoing client data packets to at least one of a UDP translator and a TCP translator and further modifying and translating the data packet(s) of the set(s) to form one or more subsets of modified outgoing client packets, wherein the data packets of the subset(s) is(are) an open systems interconnection (OSI) layer-3 Internet protocol (IP) datagram or an OSI layer-2 Ethernet frame, and optionally extracting data from each data packet from the subset(s) and creating or updating one or more of the database tables of the TCP translator and/or UDP translator states;
• d. sending data packets from the one or more subset(s) of the modified outgoing client data packets to the target computer host(s) optionally using one or simultaneously two or more of the assigned data channel(s), optionally using one or more network socket(s) bound to the data channel(s), which network socket(s) is(are) optionally selected from a group consisting at least one of:
• an OSI layer-4 user datagram protocol (UDP) socket, an OSI layer-4 transmission control protocol (TCP) socket, an OSI layer-4 stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) socket, a socket configured to bind to a real physical network interface, and an OSI layer-3 raw socket;
• e. receiving one or more subsets of modified incoming data packets from at least one target computer host via at least one of the network socket using at least one of the plurality of data channels;
• e. receiving one or more sets of incoming computer host data packets from at least one target computer host wherein the receiving of the plurality of data packets from the set(s) incoming computer host data packets optionally is performed using one or simultaneously two or more assigned data channel(s) and optional network socket(s) to form one or more subsets of incoming computer hosts data packets optionally using one or more of the plurality of data channels;
• f. assigning the one or more subsets of incoming computer host data packets to at least one of a UDP translator and a TCP translator and further modifying and translating the data packet(s) of the subset(s) to form one or more subsets of modified incoming computer host data packets, and optionally extracting data from each data packet from the subset(s) of modified incoming computer host data packets, and creating or updating one or more of the database table(s) of the TCP translator and/or UDP translator states;
• g. optionally reading, optionally extracting, and modifying, one or more data packets from the subset(s) of modified incoming computer host data packets to form one or more sets) of modified incoming computer hosts data packets;
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• h. optionally reordering, assembling, and writing the subsets of incoming data packets to the virtual network interface and optionally routing them to at least one network device applications or operating system *** optionally reordering, assembling, and/or writing one or more of the sets of modified incoming computer host data packets to the virtual network interface and optionally routing one or more data packet(s) from the set(s) modified incoming computer host data packets to at least one network device's applications or operating system, wherein the data packets are an OSI layer-3 Internet protocol (IP) datagram or an OSI layer-2 Ethernet frame.

A system for increasing performance when downloading and uploading data files on at least one network device configured to communicate with at least one target computer host, optionally over an application layer and optionally using at least one remote server or proxy server, the system comprising:

• A. at least one network device capable of communicating over plurality of data channels using a method comprising:
• i obtaining location information of a file to be downloaded, wherein the location information optionally is of at least one of a URL, a URI, or resource location information and performing operations comprising:
• a) using the location information to obtain a network address of the file to be downloaded, which address optionally comprises at least one of a IPv4 and a IPv6 address, and wherein the network address is optionally obtained using an authoritative DNS server, a non-authoritative DNS server, or a local database;
• b) optionally assigning at least one of the network addresses to at least one of the plurality of data channels;
• c) optionally establishing a communication link with at least one of a remote server or a proxy server;
• d) obtaining data of the file to be downloaded optionally using at least one of a remote server or proxy servern wherein the obtained data comprises metadata, header data, and or range data and then dividing the file into plurality of data blocks using the obtained data;
• e) assigning each of the plurality of data blocks intelligently to at least one of the plurality of data channels;
• f) requesting data block downloads via establishing at least one communication link to at least one of the network addresses using one or more of data channels optionally via a remote server or a proxy server;
• g) managing the state of each data block and scheduling or retrying each download;
• h) assembling data blocks and writing a file to permanent storage, temporary storage, and/or a random access memory (RAM);
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• i) optionally executing the file while being downloaded or after download completion;
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• ii obtaining location information of a file to be uploaded wherein the location information is a URL, a URI, or a resource location information, and perform operations comprising:
• a) using the location information to obtain a network address of the data file(s) to be uploaded, which address optionally comprises at least one of a IPv4 and a IPv6 address, and wherein the network address is optionally obtained using an authoritative DNS server, a non-authoritative DNS server, or a local database;
• b) optionally assigning one or more of the network addresses to one or more of the plurality of data channels;
• c) optionally establishing a communication link with a remote server or a proxy server;
• d) dividing the file into plurality of data blocks;
• e) assigning each of the plurality of data blocks intelligently to at least one of the plurality of data channels via a boosting policy;
• f) uploading data blocks via establishing a communication link to one or more of the network addresses using one or more of a plurality of data channels optionally via a remote server or proxy server;
• g) managing the state of each data block and scheduling or retrying each upload;
• B. optionally a remote server or proxy server capable of communicating with a network device and a target host over one or more data channels, and performing operations comprising:
• i accepting a communication link from a network device of the system;
• ii establishing a communication link to a target host using a network interface;
• iii accepting one or more download or upload requests from one or more network devices of the system for one or more data blocks and forwarding download or upload requests to the target host;
• iv accepting a response from the target host and forwarding a response to a network device over one or more of the data channels;
• v accepting and caching one or more of the data blocks downloaded from of the target host over one or more of the data channels;
• vi collecting the cached downloaded data blocks and performing one or more of a reordering and an assembling of the cached data blocks into an original file and optionally forwarding at least one file to one or more network devices optionally using a plurality of data channels;
• vii accepting and caching at least one or more of the data blocks uploaded from of the network device over one or more of the data channels;
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• viii collecting the cached uploaded data blocks and performing one or more of a reordering and an assembling of the cached data blocks into the original file and optionally forwarding at least one file or more files to one or more target computer hosts using at least one of a plurality of data channels;
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• C. optionally utilizing configurable and adaptive control logic that optionally performs one or more of the following operations:
• network/channel selection, network/channel prioritization, network/channel optimization, network/channel security, and network/channel bandwidth aggregation function(s) based on one or more of the following parameters:
• network/channel conditions, network/channel types, business rules, user behaviors and preferences, and application data traffic.