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US RE39,017 E1Granted
Internet upstream request compression
AssigneeITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
InventorsJoseph Smallcomb, Ray Allen Daniel
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AssigneeITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
InventorsJoseph Smallcomb, Ray Allen Daniel
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Interactive internet activities are a very popular means for gathering information for business, personal, medical, entertainment and other purposes. Most internet interaction is asymmetrical in nature in that a client's requests for information are much smaller (in data size) than the resulting information delivered by the server. Although the client/internet link is inherently asymmetrical, there remains a great deal of interaction and overhead required between the client and the server that increases the bandwidth needs for the client's upstream request channel. There are many advantages to reducing this upstream traffic volume and thereby making the internet interaction even more asymmetrical. Such compression of request data could allow more clients to utilize a single upstream data path instead of separate paths.
In an interactive internet information distribution system in which user stations are connected to the internet by an internet server through an upstream gateway for transmission of information requests to said internet server and downstream gateways for transmission of information from the internet server to the user stations, the improvement wherein each user station includes a processor, said processor including:
In an interactive internet information distribution system in which user stations are connected to the internet by an internet server through an upstream gateway for transmission of information requests to said internet server and downstream gateways for transmission of information from the internet server to the user stations, the improvement wherein each user station includes a processor, said processor including:
In an interactive internet information distribution system in which user stations are connected to the internet by an internet server through an upstream gateway for transmission of information requests to said internet server and downstream gateways for transmission of information from the internet server to the user stations, the improvement wherein each user station includes a processor, said processor including:
A method of reducing upstream request data from a client to request information from a server, the method comprising:
A method of reducing upstream request data from a client to request information from a server, the method comprising:
A client processor for requesting information from a server in a communications network, the client processor comprising a compression unit configured to receive an upstream request, to compress the received request using an internet driver, thereby generating a compressed upstream request, and to output the compressed upstream request using a connection-oriented communication protocol, wherein client processor is connected to an upstream and a downstream channel, and the compressed upstream request is output on the upstream channel and the requested information is received on the downstream channel and a ratio of downstream traffic to upstream traffic is increased beyond a 20:1 ratio.
An upstream processor coupled to a client processor via an upstream channel and to a server via a communication network, the upstream processor comprising a decompression unit configured to receive from the client processor a compressed upstream request for information from the server, the compressed upstream request being compressed using an internet driver, wherein a ratio of downstream channel traffic to upstream channel traffic exceeds a ratio of 20:1, and to decompress the compressed upstream request to reconstruct an upstream request from the client, wherein the decompression unit is configured to receive the compressed upstream request according to a connection-oriented communication protocol, wherein said decompression unit is configured to automatically generate a new data request for a given user.
In an interactive internet information distribution system in which user stations are connected to the internet by an internet server through an upstream gateway for transmission of information requests to said internet server and downstream gateways for transmission of information from the internet server to the user stations, the improvement wherein each user station includes a processor, said processor including:
In an interactive internet information distribution system in which user stations are connected to the internet by an internet server through an upstream gateway for transmission of information requests to said internet server and downstream gateways for transmission of information from the internet server to the user stations, the improvement wherein each user station includes a processor, said processor including:
In an interactive internet information distribution system in which user stations are connected to the internet by an internet server through an upstream gateway for transmission of information requests to said internet server and downstream gateways for transmission of information from the internet server to the user stations, the improvement wherein each user station includes a processor, said processor including:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.