Efficient exchange of text based protocol language information

• US 20040059834A1
• Filed: 09/19/2002
• Published: 03/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Taylor, Keith A., Friedman, Lee G.
• Application Number:
  US10/247,453
• Publication Number:
  US 20040059834A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/247
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/04 Protocols for data compression, e.g. ROHC

Abstract

Systems for an efficient exchange of text based protocol language information include a compressor for compressing text based protocol language information, and a decompressor for decompressing the compressed text based protocol language information. The compressed and decompressed text based protocol language information is transmitted between processors that are adapted to process text based protocol language information. The system may also include an encryption processor to encrypt the compressed text based protocol language before transmitting the compressed text based protocol language information. A decryption processor decrypts the encrypted and compressed text based protocol language information for use by the processors. Other systems and methods are also provided.

Claims

1. A system for an efficient exchange of text based protocol language information, comprising:

a compressor for compressing text based protocol language information; and

a decompressor for decompressing the compressed text based protocol language information, and wherein the compressed and decompressed text based protocol language information is transmitted between a plurality of processors that are adapted to process text based protocol language information.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the text based protocol language information comprises any text based protocol language information transmitted over a network adapted to provide services such as instant messaging, web pages or transaction services.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the text based protocol language information includes tags or text.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the text based protocol language information comprises a markup language.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the markup language is configured utilizing tags having at least one of an element, root element, body, or beginning or ending tag indications.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the tags include commands that are converted to a code that represents the commands.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the compressor is configured to compress the commands into bytes, bits or other binary representation.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the compressor is configured to compress the commands using a compression process such as a Canonical-Huffman coding process.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising an encryption processor for encrypting the compressed text based protocol language information before transmitting the compressed text based protocol language and a decryption processor for decrypting the compressed and encrypted text based protocol language information.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the encryption and decryption processors are configured using encryption such as encryption provided by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) cryptographic processors.

11. A method for an efficient exchange of text based protocol language information, comprising the steps of:

compressing text based protocol language data streams;

forwarding the compressed text based protocol language data streams to processors adapted to support a text based language protocol service; and

decompressing the compressed text based protocol language data streams for use by the processors.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the compressing text based protocol language data streams further comprises converting the text based protocol languages data streams to a smaller set of codes that represent the text based protocol language data streams.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the converting the text based protocol languages data streams to a smaller set of codes that represent the text based protocol language data streams is performed on a markup language.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the converting the text based protocol languages data streams to a smaller set of codes that represent the text based protocol language data streams is performed on at least one of tags or text of the markup language.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising encrypting the compressed text based protocol language data streams.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising decrypting the encrypted and compressed text based protocol language data streams.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprises providing encryption and decryption for the text based protocol language data streams using an encryption method such as encryption performed using Single Socket Layer (SSL) cryptographic processors.

18. A system for efficiently exchanging text based protocol languages, comprising:

a first processing device adapted to process a text based protocol language application;

a second processing device, the second processing device is operatively coupled to the first processing device and adapted to receive and service the text based protocol language application; and

a processor coupled to the first processing device and the second processing device, the processor adapted to compress and decompress commands of the text based protocol language application.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the first processing device and second processing device are configured to support at least one service such as an instant messaging service, Web page or transaction service.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the text based protocol language application comprises a markup language application.

21. The system of claim 18, wherein the commands comprise tags.

22. The system of claim 18, further comprising an encryption processor operatively coupled to the first processing device for encrypting the text based protocol languages before transmitting the text based protocol language application to the second processing device.

23. The system of claim 22, further comprising a decryption processor operatively coupled to the second processing device for decrypting the encrypted and compressed text based protocol language application.

24. The system of claim 18, wherein the first processing device is configured to encrypt the text based protocol language application upon exiting the first processing device and the second processing device is configured to decrypt the encrypted text based protocol language application before the second processing device services the text based protocol language application.

25. A system for efficiently exchanging text based protocol languages, comprising:

means for compressing text based protocol language information; and

means for decompressing the compressed text based protocol language information, and wherein the compressed and decompressed text based protocol language information is transmitted between a plurality of processors that are adapted to process text based protocol language.

26. The system of claim 25, further comprising means for encrypting the text based protocol language information before transmitting the compressed text based protocol language information and means for decrypting the encrypted and compressed text based protocol language information.

27. A computer-readable medium having a computer program for efficiently exchanging text based protocol languages, comprising:

logic configured to compress text based protocol language data streams;

logic configured to forward the compressed text based protocol language data streams to at least one processor adapted to support a text based language protocol application; and

logic configured to decompress the compressed text based protocol language data streams for use by the at least one processor.

28. The computer-readable medium of claim 27, further comprising logic configured to encrypt the compressed text based protocol language data streams.

29. The computer-readable medium of claim 28, further comprising logic configured to decrypt the encrypted and compressed text based protocol language data streams.