DYNAMICALLY ADAPTIVE NETWORK-BASED DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20100106770A1
• Filed: 10/28/2008
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panzura, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Pixel8 Networks, Inc. (Panzura, Inc.)
• Inventors: Taylor, John Richard, Chou, Randy Yen-pang
• Granted Patent: US 8,706,910 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles

Abstract

According to one embodiment of the invention, a method is devised for tailoring downloaded content to the requesting device by receiving attribute parameters associated with a device that initiates a request for downloaded content. The attribute parameters are values that identify specific characteristics of the device. Thereafter, the content is modified according to the attributes parameters, and thereafter, the modified content is transmitted to the device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving attribute parameters associated with a device that initiates a request for content, the attribute parameters are values that identify specific characteristics of the device;

modifying the content according to the attributes parameters; and

transmitting the modified content to the device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein one of the attribute parameters is a parameter that identifies a screen resolution of the device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein one of the attribute parameters is a parameter that identifies at least one of a type of and a version number of an operating system executed on the device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein two of the attribute parameters include parameters that identify a processor type and base processing speed of a processor implemented within the device.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein one of the attribute parameters is a parameter that identifies a type of browser executed on the device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the request is a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) GET Request message that includes a header containing the attribute parameters.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the request is a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) GET Request message that includes a uniform resource indicator within a request line of the HTTP Request message, the uniform resource indicator includes the attribute parameters.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting of the modified content includes transmitting a plurality of frames that collectively include payload data being the modified content.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

receiving acknowledgement messages for frames downloaded to the client device; and

reducing a transmission rate for the frames including the modified content if a rate of receipt of the acknowledge messages is less than the transmission rate.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the transmission rate is reduced by either (1) reducing a transmit frame rate being a rate of transmission for frames forming the modified content, or (2) increasing a quantization factor, or (3) reducing the transmit frame rate and increasing the quantization factor.

11. A system comprising:

at least one data server to store content; and

an adaptive data processing system in communication with the at least one data server, the adaptive data processing system includes

a network interface including logic to determine a destination of an incoming message,

a first processing subsystem to scan the incoming message to determine whether the incoming message is a Request message for a download of the content, and

a second processing subsystem to extract information within the Request message in order to determine attributes of a client device initiating the Request message, the information includes attribute parameters being values that identify specific characteristics of the device that initiated the Request message, the second processing subsystem further to modify the content being downloaded to the client device according to the attributes parameters.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the second processing subsystem to modify the content to be downloaded according to one of the attribute parameters being a parameter that identifies a screen resolution of the device.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the second processing subsystem to modify the content to be downloaded according to one of the attribute parameters being a parameter that identifies a type of browser executed on the device.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the Request message is a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) GET Request message that includes a header containing the attribute parameters.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the Request message is a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) GET Request message that includes a uniform resource indicator within a request line of HTTP Request message, the uniform resource indicator includes the attribute parameters.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the adaptive data processing system is dedicated hardware directly coupled to and housed in a same area as the at least one data server.

17. Software implemented within a device and stored within internal memory located within the device, the software being executed by a processor and comprising:

logic for detecting attribute parameters associated with a device and contained within a message requesting video to be downloaded to a remotely located device, the message being a Request message and the attribute parameters are values that identify specific characteristics of the remotely located device that are placed within the Request message;

logic for modifying the video to be downloaded according to the attributes parameters; and

logic for transmitting the modified video to the remotely located device.

18. The software stored within the internal memory located within the device of claim 17 that, when executed, causes the processor to modify the video for receipt by the remotely located device being a cellular telephone with WiFi capability.

19. The software stored within the internal memory located within the device of claim 17 that, when executed, causes the processor to modify the video according to a screen resolution of the remotely located device.

20. The software stored within the internal memory located within the device of claim 17 that, when executed, causes the processor to modify the video according to the attribute parameters provided within an HTTP Get Request message from the remotely located device.