# US 12,603,809 B2 · System providing faster and more efficient data communication > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,603,809 B2 - Document ID: US12603809B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 19/274,541 - Filed: 2025-07-19 - Published: 2026-01-22 - Granted: 2026-04-14 - Earliest claimed: 2009-10-08 - Assignees: Bright Data Ltd. - Applicants: Bright Data Ltd. - Inventors: Derry Shribman; Ofer Vilenski - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12603809B2 ## CPC - H04L 41/046: comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor - H04L 67/01: Protocols - H04L 67/1001: for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers - H04L 67/1023: based on a hash applied to IP addresses or costs - H04L 67/1063: {Discovery through centralising entities} - H04L 67/108: {characterised by resources being split in blocks or fragments} - H04L 67/142: Managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms - H04L 67/535: {Tracking the activity of the user (network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34)} - H04L 67/563: Data redirection of data network streams - H04L 67/564: Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data - H04L 67/02: based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) ## Abstract A system designed for increasing network communication speed for users, while lowering network congestion for content owners and ISPs. The system employs network elements including an acceleration server, clients, agents, and peers, where communication requests generated by applications are intercepted by the client on the same machine. The IP address of the server in the communication request is transmitted to the acceleration server, which provides a list of agents to use for this IP address. The communication request is sent to the agents. One or more of the agents respond with a list of peers that have previously seen some or all of the content which is the response to this request (after checking whether this data is still valid). The client then downloads the data from these peers in parts and in parallel, thereby speeding up the Web transfer, releasing congestion from the Web by fetching the information from multiple sources, and relieving traffic from Web servers by offloading the data transfers from them to nearby peers. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for use with a first web server that stores a first content that comprises a first web-page or a part thereof identified by a first Uniform Resource Locator (URL), the method comprising: downloading, by a first device from a first server over the Internet, a first software application; executing, by a first device, the first software application; receiving, by the first device from the first server over the Internet, the first URL; sending, by the first device to the first web server over the Internet, a first Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request that comprises the received first URL; receiving, by the first device from the first web server over the Internet, in response to the sending of the first HTTP request, the first content; and sending, by the first device to the first server over the Internet, the received first content, wherein the first server comprises a commercial server, wherein the first device comprises a consumer communication device, and wherein the first content comprises an audio data, a video data, or any combination thereof. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the first device is identified by a Media Access Control (MAC) address or a hostname, and wherein the method further comprising sending, by the first device to the first server over the Internet, during, as part of, or in response to, a start-up or power-up of the first device, a first message. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method according to claim 2, wherein the first software application is associated with a first version number, wherein the first message comprises the first version number. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The method according to claim 3, for use with a second software application that is a different version of the first software application, that is stored in a first server, and that is associated with a second version number, wherein the method further comprising receiving, by the first device from the first server over the Internet, in response to the first message, a second message that comprises the second version number. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The method according to claim 4, wherein the method further comprising downloading, by the first device from the first server over the Internet, in response to the first message, the second software application from the first server, and installing the second software application in the first device as a replacement for the first software application. ### Claim 6 (depends on 2) The method according to claim 2, wherein the first message comprises an Internet Protocol (IP) address, a MAC address, a hostname, or any combination thereof, of the first device. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the first software application comprises a web browser application, and wherein the sending of the first HTTP request is performed as part of the executing of the web browser application. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method according to claim 7, wherein the communication between the first device and the first server comprises communication over an established Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, further comprising periodically communicating over the TCP connection between the first server and the first device. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the first server is not a consumer communication device. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The method according to claim 10, wherein the periodically communicating comprises exchanging of ‘keep alive’ messages. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, further comprising determining, by the first device, that the received first content, is valid. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The method according to claim 12, wherein the determining is based on a received Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) header according to, or based on, IETF RFC 2616. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The method according to claim 12, further comprising: sending, a message over the Internet in response to the determining that the received first content, is not valid; and receiving, over the Internet in response to the sending of the message, from the first server or from a second client device selected from a plurality of client devices, the first content. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the first device comprises a client device, and wherein the first server is not a client device. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, further preceded by initiating a communicating, by the first device, with the first server over the Internet. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, further comprising storing, by the first device, the received first content. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the first server is a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) server that communicates over the Internet using TCP/IP protocol or connection, and wherein the first device is a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) client that communicates with the first server over the Internet using the TCP/IP protocol. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the first device communicates over the Internet based on, or according to, UDP, DNS, TCP, FTP, POP3, SMTP, SQL, or any combination thereof. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, further comprising storing, operating, or using, by the first device, a client operating system. ### Claim 21 (depends on 1) A non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer instructions that, when executed by a computer processor, cause the processor to perform the method according to claim 1. ### Claim 22 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, further for use with a second content that comprises a second web-page or a part thereof, that is stored in the first web server, and that is identified by a second URL, the method further comprising: receiving, by the first device from the first server over the Internet, the second URL; sending, by the first device to the first web server over the Internet, a second HTTP request that comprises the received second URL; receiving, by the first device from the first web server over the Internet, in response to the sending of the second HTTP request, the second content; and sending, by the first device to the first server over the Internet, the received second content.