Mobile application accelerator

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause said processor to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, by a mobile accelerator system, a mobile data transfer acceleration initialization request from a mobile application on a mobile device, the mobile accelerator system including a plurality of POPs;
• validating the mobile data transfer acceleration initialization request;
• providing a mobile data transfer acceleration initialization response to the mobile device, the mobile data transfer acceleration initialization response including configuration settings for the mobile device to enable the mobile application for mobile data transfer acceleration;
• receiving, at an entry POP of the mobile accelerator system, a data transfer request from the mobile application requesting content from a content server using the mobile data transfer acceleration;
• determining, by the entry POP, a dynamic path traversing one or more of the plurality of POPs between the entry POP and the content server;
• and
• routing data transfers between the mobile device and the content server through the dynamic path.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium coupled with the processor that stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes said processor to perform the following:
• receive, by a mobile accelerator system, a mobile data transfer acceleration initialization request from a mobile application on a mobile device, the mobile accelerator system including a plurality of POPs;
• validate the mobile data transfer acceleration initialization request;
• provide a mobile data transfer acceleration initialization response to the mobile device, the mobile data transfer acceleration initialization response including configuration settings for the mobile device to enable the mobile application for mobile data transfer acceleration;
• receive, at an entry POP of the mobile accelerator system, a data transfer request from the mobile application requesting content from a content server using the mobile data transfer acceleration;
• determine, by the entry POP, a dynamic path traversing one or more of the plurality of POPs between the entry POP and the content server;
• and
• route data transfers between the mobile device and the content server through the dynamic path.