Methods and systems for auto-sensing internet accelerators and proxies for download content

• US 20060230127A1
• Filed: 04/08/2005
• Published: 10/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Zarakhovsky, Yevgeny, Farouki, Karim M.T.
• Granted Patent: US 7,937,476 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/08 Configuration management of networks or network elements address allocation H04L61/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/509 wherein the managed service relates to media content delivery, e.g. audio, video or TV
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]

Abstract

The present invention allows for the downloading of content regardless of a computing device'"'"'s configuration. Computer software is executed on the computing device to accommodate multiple download protocols and techniques. The present invention also works through problems associated with proxies, firewalls, and internet accelerators to download content from the internet.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for transferring content in a network, comprising:

detecting a background intelligent transfer service executing in an operating system on a first computing device; and

binding a proxy name from a registry to a job associated with the background intelligent transfer service, the background intelligent transfer service operating to transfer a content between the first computing device and other computing devices.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising upon a failure of the background intelligent transfer service during the transfer of the content, selecting an application program interface and an application-level protocol to transfer the content between the first computing device and the other computing devices.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein operating to transfer the content comprises downloading the content from the internet, uploading the content to the internet, and uploading the content to the internet and receiving a reply.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the content is selected from the group comprising information contained in files, and streams of data.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein the proxy name comprises a variable containing a value extracted from a key in the registry.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the background intelligent transfer service comprises a set of application program interfaces in the Windows Operating System infrastructure to request file transfers over HTTP.

7. A computer system having a processor, a memory and an operating environment, the computer system operable to execute the method as recited in claim 1.

8. A computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon for performing the method of claim 1.

9. A computer-implemented method for transferring content in a network, comprising:

detecting an internet accelerator operating on a first computing device;

operating a background intelligent transfer service to transfer a content between a first computing device and other computing devices; and

upon a failure of the background intelligent transfer service during the transfer of the content, selecting an application program interface and an application-level protocol to transfer the content between the first computing device and the other computing devices.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein operating the background intelligent transfer service to transfer the content comprises downloading the content from the internet, uploading the content to the internet, and uploading the content to the internet and receiving a reply.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the content is selected from the group comprising information contained in files, and streams of data.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the background intelligent transfer service comprises a set of application program interfaces in the Windows Operating System infrastructure to request file transfers over HTTP.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the application-level protocol is selected from the group comprising HTTP, FTP, and Gopher.

14. A computer system having a processor, a memory and an operating environment, the computer system operable to execute the method as recited in claim 9.

15. A computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon for performing the method of claim 9.

16. A computer-implemented method for managing downloads from the internet, comprising:

detecting a dial-up internet accelerator operating on a computing device;

executing an HTTP GET request, further comprising determining if the HTTP GET request is successful; and

if the HTTP GET request is unsuccessful, executing an application program interface and an application-level protocol to download a content from the internet, the execution of the application program interface and the application-level protocol bypass using a background intelligent transfer service.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 16, wherein the content is selected from the group comprising information contained in files, and streams of data.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 17, wherein the background intelligent transfer service comprises a set of application program interfaces in the Windows Operating System infrastructure to request file transfers over HTTP.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein the application-level protocol is selected from the group comprising HTTP, FTP, and Gopher.

20. A computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon for performing the method of claim 16.