Systems for Improved Multi-Channel Network Connectivity Performance and Security

A system for routing multi-channel network traffic without using a remote server, the system comprising one or more network devices capable of communicating over a plurality of data channels and 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 comprises a routing module, optionally consisting of a user datagram protocol (UDP) translator and a transmission control protocol (TCP) translator, and wherein the service application performs operations comprising:

• a. establishing a virtual network interface and routing a set of outgoing data packets to the virtual network interface, wherein the outgoing data packets optionally are an open system interconnection (OSI) layer-3 Internet protocol (IP) datagram or an OSI layer-2 Ethernet frame;
• b. reading the set of outgoing data packets from the virtual network interface and extracting data from the set of outgoing data packets;
• c. assigning each subset of outgoing data packets from the set of outgoing data packets to at least one of a UDP translator and a TCP translator to form a set of modified outgoing data packets;
• d. sending the one or more subsets of modified outgoing data pockets via at least one of the network sockets using at least one of the plurality of data channels to at least one of the target computer hosts, optionally using at least one of a layer-4 user datagram protocol with layer-3 Internet protocol (UDP/IP), a layer-4 transmission control protocol with layer-3 Internet protocol (TCP/IP) data traffic network sockets, and/or a socket configured to bind to a real physical network interface, and wherein the network sockets optionally are at least one of a protected and or a standard 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;
• f. extracting data from one or more subsets of modified incoming data packets to form one or more subsets of incoming 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.

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 the 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 at least one method comprising:
• i obtaining location information of at least one 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 at least one network address of the data file(s) 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 at least one file to be downloaded optionally using at least one of a remote server or proxy server;
• wherein data comprise of at least one of a metadata, a header data, and a range data and then dividing at least one 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 at least one or more of data channels optionally via a remote server or a proxy server;
• g) managing the state of each block and scheduling or retrying each download via a boosting policy;
• h) assembling blocks and writing at least one file to at least one of a permanent storage, a temporary storage, and 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 at least one file to be uploaded wherein the location information is of at least one of a URL, a URI, and a resource location information, and perform operations comprising:
• a) using the location information to obtain at least one 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 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) dividing the file into plurality of blocks;
• e) assigning each of the plurality of blocks intelligently to at least one of the plurality of data channels via a boosting policy;
• f) uploading blocks via establishing at least one communication link to at least one of the network addresses using at least one of a plurality of data channels optionally via a remote server or proxy server;
• g) managing the state of each block and scheduling or retrying each upload via a boosting policy;
• B. optionally at least one remote server or proxy server capable of communicating with at least one of a network device and a target host over at least one or more data channels, and performing operations comprising:
• i accepting at least one communication link from at least one network device of the system;
• ii establishing at least one communication link to at least one target host using at least one network interface;
• iii accepting at least one or more download or upload requests from at least one network device of the system for at least one of the blocks and forwarding download or upload requests to at least one target hosts;
• iv accepting at least one response from at least one target host and forwarding at least one response to at least one network device over one or more of the data channels;
• v accepting and caching at least one or more of the blocks downloaded from at least one of the target hosts over one or more of the data channels;
• vi collecting the cached downloaded blocks and performing at least one of a reordering and an assembling of the cached data blocks into the original file and optionally forwarding at least one file to one or more network devices using at least one of a plurality of data channels;
• vii accepting and caching at least one or more of the blocks uploaded from at least one of the network devices of the system over one or more of the data channels;
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• viii collecting the cached uploaded blocks and performing at least one of a reordering and an assembling of the cached data blocks into the original file and optionally forwarding at least one file to one or more target computer hosts using at least one of a plurality of data channels;
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• C. optionally operating a boosting policy that utilizes 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 at least one or more of the following parameters:
• network/channel conditions, network/channel types, business rules, user behaviors and preferences, and application data traffic.