Content delivery for client-server protocols with user affinities using connection end-point proxies
First Claim
1. In a network supporting transactions between clients and servers, wherein a client is a host that requests a transaction and a server is a host that issues responses responsive to client requests and wherein packets between a client and a server travel over a network path comprising one or more hops and having one or more operating characteristic to overcome, a method of transporting data to overcome the one or more operating characteristic comprising:
- identifying user affinity for a data object, wherein user affinity of the data object indicates which user or users might be associated with the data object such that a user having user affinity to the data object is more likely to requested data object then a user and not having user affinity to the data object;
dynamically identifying user locations, wherein a user location represents an association between a user and preload node, wherein a preload node is a network location wherein preloaded data can be stored to overcome at least one of the one or more operating characteristics;
transporting particular data having a specified user affinity, in advance of a client request on behalf of a particular user having a user affinity for the particular data, from a server to a preload node identified as a user location for the particular user.
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Abstract
In a network supporting transactions between clients and servers over a network path having operating characteristics to overcome, data is transported to overcome the operating characteristics using user affinities and dynamic user location information to selectively preload data, or representations, signatures, segments, etc. of data, in order to overcome the one or more operating characteristic. Examples of operating characteristics to overcome include bandwidth limitations, errors and latency. The dynamic location information can be stored in data structures accessible by agents of a data server and the data structures are populated based on user activities with respect to proxies associated with user locations, or the dynamic location information can be obtained implicitly as proxies maintain connections after termination by clients and the use of those maintained connections for preloading of data for the users associated with those clients. The data being preloaded can be protocol-specific data or protocol-independent data.
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17 Claims
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1. In a network supporting transactions between clients and servers, wherein a client is a host that requests a transaction and a server is a host that issues responses responsive to client requests and wherein packets between a client and a server travel over a network path comprising one or more hops and having one or more operating characteristic to overcome, a method of transporting data to overcome the one or more operating characteristic comprising:
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identifying user affinity for a data object, wherein user affinity of the data object indicates which user or users might be associated with the data object such that a user having user affinity to the data object is more likely to requested data object then a user and not having user affinity to the data object;
dynamically identifying user locations, wherein a user location represents an association between a user and preload node, wherein a preload node is a network location wherein preloaded data can be stored to overcome at least one of the one or more operating characteristics;
transporting particular data having a specified user affinity, in advance of a client request on behalf of a particular user having a user affinity for the particular data, from a server to a preload node identified as a user location for the particular user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. In a network supporting transactions between clients and servers, wherein a client is a host that requests a transaction and a server is a host that issues responses responsive to client requests and wherein packets between a client and a server travel over a network path comprising one or more hops and having one or more operating characteristic to overcome, a method of transporting data to overcome the one or more operating characteristic comprising:
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transporting data for a connection between a first client and a first server initiated by the first client;
including a client connection end-point proxy (client CEP) in a network path over which the connection flows near the first client;
including a server connection end-point proxy (server CEP) in a network path over which the connection flows near the first server;
when the client CEP detects termination of the connection initiated by the first client;
a) retaining the connection to the first server and injecting synthetic transactions towards the first server;
b) receiving results of the synthetic transactions; and
c) storing the results or populating a store usable to regenerate the results at least in part;
when the client CEP detects that the first client opens a later connection, using the stored results or populated store in responding to later transactions, thereby improving the one or more operating characteristics; and
signaling between the client CEP and the server CEP to further improve the one or more operating characteristics. - View Dependent Claims (17)
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