Network data transfer acceleration system and method

• US 20050080876A1
• Filed: 10/18/2004
• Published: 04/14/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Juniper Networks Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Redline Networks, Inc. (Juniper Networks Incorporated)
• Inventors: Peiffer, Christopher, L'Heureux, Israel
• Granted Patent: US 7,308,490 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

A system, method, and device for computer networking. According to one embodiment of the invention, the method includes receiving from a remote client a request for a web resource containing renderable and non-renderable data. The method further includes filtering at least a portion of the non-renderable data from the requested web resource, thereby creating a modified web resource. The method also includes sending the modified web resource to the remote client. Non-renderable data may include whitespace, comments, hard returns, meta tags, keywords, or other data not used by a browser to present a web page.

Claims

1. A device for use in transferring data over a computer network, wherein the computer network connects a web server to a browser executed by a remote client, the device comprising, a controller configured to execute a communication program, the communication program being configured to receive a request for web page source data from the remote client, obtain the web page source data from the web server, compress the web page source data in real time, and send the compressed web page source data to the remote client, wherein the web page source data is in HTML format.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the communication program is configured to read the request for the web page source data and determine a browser-interpretable compression format.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the controller is configured to compress the web page source data using the browser-interpretable compression format.

4. The device of claim 1, further comprising a network interface linked to the controller.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein the network interface is configured to connect to the web server via a LAN.

6. The device of claim 4, wherein the network interface is configured to connect to the remote client via a WAN.