System providing faster and more efficient data communication
First Claim
1. A method for use with a web server that is a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server responding to HTTP requests and stores a first content identified by a first content identifier, and for use with first and second client devices that are respectively addressed over the Internet using first and second Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and are each operative to communicate over the Internet with a first server, the method by the first server comprising:
- communicating with the second device;
storing the IP address of the second device in response to the communicating;
receiving, from the first client device, a first message that comprises the first content identifier;
sending, in response to the receiving of the first message, the first content identifier to the second client device using the respective stored IP address; and
receiving, in response to the sending of the first content identifier, the first content, or a part thereof, from the second client device.
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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.
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28 Claims
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1. A method for use with a web server that is a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server responding to HTTP requests and stores a first content identified by a first content identifier, and for use with first and second client devices that are respectively addressed over the Internet using first and second Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and are each operative to communicate over the Internet with a first server, the method by the first server comprising:
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communicating with the second device; storing the IP address of the second device in response to the communicating; receiving, from the first client device, a first message that comprises the first content identifier; sending, in response to the receiving of the first message, the first content identifier to the second client device using the respective stored IP address; and receiving, in response to the sending of the first content identifier, the first content, or a part thereof, from the second client device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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