US 12,706,984 B2Granted

System and method for improving internet communication by using intermediate nodes

AssigneeBright Data 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.

Claims55

Dependent claims

A method for obtaining over the Internet a first content that is identified by a first Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and that is stored in a first web server, and a second content that is identified by a second URL and that is stored in a second web server, the method comprising:

measuring, by a mobile device, a utilization level of a resource;
sending, by the mobile device over the Internet, a message that comprises, or is based on, the measured utilization level;
receiving, by the mobile device over the Internet, the first URL;
sending, by the mobile device over the Internet to the first web server, a first HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request that comprises the first URL;
receiving, by the mobile device from the first web server over the Internet, the first content, in response to the sending of the first HTTP request;
sending, by the mobile device over the Internet, the received first content;
receiving, by the mobile device over the Internet, the second URL;
sending, by the mobile device to the second web server over the Internet, a second HTTP request that comprises the second URL;
receiving, by the mobile device from the second web server over the Internet, the second content, in response to the sending of the second HTTP request;
and
sending, by the mobile device over the Internet, the received second content.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/738,081Filed 10 Jun 2024 · continuation
Priority: 28 Aug 2013
Published: US 2024/0331053 A13 Oct 2024
Granted: 11 Aug 2026
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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