REDUCING LATENCY ASSOCIATED WITH INITIATING REAL-TIME INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS
First Claim
1. A switch for decreasing latency associated with initiating Internet communications, the switch comprising:
- a host processor;
a transport subsystem that receives incoming data and sends outgoing data; and
a semantic processor that anticipates real-time communication by analyzing the incoming data for specific types of data from a first user in order to instruct the host processor to pre-fetch data needed to initiate real-time communications with a second user, wherein pre-fetching decreases the latency associated with establishing communications between the first user and the second user.
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Abstract
A switch including circuitry and methods for decreasing latency associated with initiating Internet communications are disclosed. The switch includes a host processor and a transport subsystem that receives incoming data and sends outgoing data. The switch also has a semantic processor. The semantic processor anticipates real-time communication by analyzing the incoming data for specific types of data from a first user in order to instruct the host processor to pre-fetch data needed to initiate real-time communications with a second user. The pre-fetching of the data needed to initiate real-time communications decreases the latency associated with establishing communications between the first user and the second user.
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16 Claims
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1. A switch for decreasing latency associated with initiating Internet communications, the switch comprising:
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a host processor;
a transport subsystem that receives incoming data and sends outgoing data; and
a semantic processor that anticipates real-time communication by analyzing the incoming data for specific types of data from a first user in order to instruct the host processor to pre-fetch data needed to initiate real-time communications with a second user, wherein pre-fetching decreases the latency associated with establishing communications between the first user and the second user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for decreasing the latency associated with initiating real-time Internet communications, the method comprising:
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analyzing incoming data to a transport subsystem of an Internet switch;
determining whether the incoming data contains data relevant to initiating real-time communications with a second party;
if the incoming traffic contains data relevant to initiating real-time communications, the method further including requesting a host processor of the Internet switch to query a database to pre-fetch data related to establishing real-time communication with the second party; and
storing the data associated with the second party in a cache associated with the Internet switch, wherein latency is reduced when initiating a real-time communication to the second party, as the data associated with the second party is stored within the cache. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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