METHOD OF ADJUSTING NETWORK DATA SENDING SPEED ACCORDING TO DATA PROCESSING SPEED AT CLIENT

• US 20090198830A1
• Filed: 02/06/2008
• Published: 08/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: ZHANG, Yue, CHEN, Tom, LIU, Win-Harn
• Application Number:
  US12/026,787
• Publication Number:
  US 20090198830A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/233
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/18 End to end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/263 Rate modification at the source after receiving feedback
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70

Abstract

A method of adjusting a network data sending speed according to a data processing speed at a client is described. Through calculating and feeding back a data processing speed of a client computer to a server; and then, controlling and adjusting a data sending speed at the server in real time according to the data processing speed, the server adjusts the data sending speed thereof in real time according to the requirement on speed control, and sends data to the client computer at an adjusted data sending speed. This method controls and adjusts the data sending speed at the server through a feedback mechanism of the data processing speed of the client computer, thereby avoiding problems in the conventional art, such as low network data transmission efficiency and data loss, caused by mismatching between the data processing speed at the client and the data sending speed at the server.

Claims

1. A method of adjusting a network data sending speed according to a data processing speed at a client, comprising:

establishing a network connection channel for transmitting data and a network connection channel for feeding back data between a client computer and a server;

the server sending data to the client computer through the network connection channel for transmitting data at a preset initial data sending speed within a preset period of initialization time;

the client computer receiving the data from the server, processing the data, and recording a data processing time;

the client computer calculating the data processing speed thereof in real time according to the amount of the data processed and the data processing time, and feeding back the information about the data processing speed to the server through the network connection channel for feeding back data;

the server receiving the information about the data processing speed fed back from the client computer, and controlling and adjusting the data sending speed thereof in real time according to the data processing speed after the initialization time; and

the server adjusting the data sending speed thereof in real time according to the requirement on speed control, and sending data to the client computer at an adjusted data sending speed through the network connection channel for transmitting data.

2. The method of adjusting a network data sending speed according to a data processing speed at a client as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data processing comprises decompression and disk writing.

3. The method of adjusting a network data sending speed according to a data processing speed at a client as claimed in claim 1, wherein the network connection channel for transmitting data transmits data through a User Datagram Protocol (UDP).

4. The method of adjusting a network data sending speed according to a data processing speed at a client as claimed in claim 1, wherein the network connection channel for feeding back data transmits the fed-back information about the data processing speed through a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

5. The method of adjusting a network data sending speed according to a data processing speed at a client as claimed in claim 1, wherein the client computer calculates the data processing speed thereof in real time according to the amount of the data processed and the data processing time by adopting the following formula:

data processing speed=amount of the data processed÷

data processing time, wherein, the data processing time=time point when data processing ends−

time point when data reception begins.

6. The method of adjusting a network data sending speed according to a data processing speed at a client as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controlling and adjusting the data sending speed at the server in real time according to the data processing speed comprises the following steps and formulae:

(1) calculating a total time required for sending data according to the data processing speed, wherein the total time required for sending data=amount of the data sent÷

data processing speed;

(2) calculating a real time spent in sending data, wherein the real time spent in sending data=time point when data sending ends−

time point when data sending begins;

(3) calculating a system congestion time, wherein the system congestion time=the total time required for sending data−

the real time spent in sending data; and

(4) temporarily halting/congesting the data sending process in the server for a period of time, wherein the halt/congestion time is equal to the system congestion time.

7. The method of adjusting a network data sending speed according to a data processing speed at a client as claimed in claim 6, wherein the method adopts an Application Program Interface (API) provided by an operating system;

a Sleep(time) function makes the data sending process temporarily halted/congested in the server for a period of time, in which the halt/congestion time is a value of the parameter “

time”

, which is equal to the system congestion time.