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CONTENT DELIVERY FOR CLIENT SERVER PROTOCOLS WITH USER AFFINITIES USING CONNECTION END-POINT PROXIES

  • US 20100088370A1
  • Filed: 12/07/2009
  • Published: 04/08/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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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:

  • 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 request the data object than a user 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,wherein identifying the user affinity is performed at or near the server using the data object, wherein the data object is not received from the client or the particular user.

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