Multi-path content distribution and aggregation
AssigneeAvica Technology Corporation
InventorsNicholas J. Clay, Andrew H. Maltz, William E. Elswick
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Abstract
Communication occurs between a source and a destination over plural communications paths by first identifying content to be sent to a destination via a communications system. After discovering that plural communications paths connecting directly to the destination are available, the content is divided into plural different portions and is transmitted to the destination such that each of the plural different portions is routed via a different one of the plural communications paths.
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A method for communicating between a source and a destination over plural communications paths, said method comprising:
- (a) identifying content to be sent to a destination via a communications system;
- (b) discovering that plural communications paths connecting directly to the destination are available;
- (c) dividing the content into plural different portions;
- (d) transmitting the content to the destination such that each of the plural different portions is routed via a different one of the plural communications paths;
- wherein different transmission media are used for different ones of plural communication paths;
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- wherein the different transmission media comprise different types of Internet connections.
A method for communicating between a source and a destination over plural communication paths, said method comprising:
- (a) identifying content to be sent to a destination via a communications system;
- (b) discovering that plural communications paths connecting directly to the destination are available;
- (c) dividing the content into plural different portions;
- (d) transmitting the content to the destination such that each of the plural different portions is routed via a different one of the plural communications paths;
- wherein the communication system comprises at least one network, wherein at least some of the plural communications paths are associated with different destination addresses on the at least one network, and wherein step (d) comprises a substep of addressing at least some of the plural different portions to different destination addresses;
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- wherein the different communication paths comprise different types of Internet connections.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.