US RE51,060 E1Granted

System providing faster and more efficient data communication

AssigneeBright Data Ltd.

InventorsDerry Shribman, Ofer Vilenski

Life of this patent

Estimating the term…

Loading patent…

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.

Claims32

Dependent claims

A method for fetching, by a first client device, a first content that comprises a web-page, an audio, or a video content, and is identified by a first Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and stored in a first web server, for fetching, by the first client device, a second content that comprises a web-page, an audio, or a video content, and is identified by a second URL and stored in a second web server, for use with a first server that stores a group of IP addresses, the method by the first server comprising:

receiving, from the first client device, the first URL;
selecting, in response to the receiving of the first URL from the first client device, an IP address from the group;
sending, in response to the selecting, the first URL to the first web server using the selected IP address;
receiving, in response to the sending of the first URL, the first content from the first web server;
receiving, from the first client device, the second URL;
selecting, in response to the receiving of the second URL from the first client device, an additional IP address from the group;
sending, in response to the selecting, the second URL to the second web server using the selected additional IP address;
and
receiving, in response to the sending of the second URL, the second content from the second web server.

6 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/523,800Filed 29 Nov 2023 · continuation
Priority: 8 Oct 2009
Granted: 6 Oct 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

H04L 67/01
Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications: protocols
H04L 41/046
Network management architectures or arrangements: comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor
H04L 67/1001
In which an application is distributed across nodes in the network: for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
H04L 67/1023
Server selection for load balancing: based on a hash applied to IP addresses or costs

Family

Application61/249,624Us provisional application · filed 8 Oct 2009
Application12/836,059Parent of this division · filed 14 Jul 2010
Application14/025,109Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Sep 2013
US 8,560,604 B2Parent of this division · filed 15 Oct 2013
Application15/957,950Parent of this continuation · filed 20 Apr 2018
US 10,069,936 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 4 Sep 2018
Application16/278,109Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Feb 2019
US 10,225,374 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Mar 2019
Application16/600,505Reissue · filed 13 Oct 2019
US 10,484,511 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 19 Nov 2019
US 11,190,622 B2Reissue · filed 30 Nov 2021
Application14/025,109Parent of this division
US 2011/0087733 A1Published application
US 2014/0019514 A1Published application
US 2018/0255161 A1Published application
US 2019/0182361 A1Published application
US 2020/0045142 A1Published application
US RE51,060 E1This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.