SYSTEM AND METHOD TO OPTIMIZE DATA COMMUNICATION IN A COMPUTATIONAL NETWORK

• US 20100205239A1
• Filed: 02/11/2009
• Published: 08/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Liberty Peak Ventures, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Original Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company)
• Inventors: Rice, Mike, Greiner, Hans-Jurgen
• Granted Patent: US 8,412,802 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching

Abstract

A system and method for data communication in a computational network is disclosed. The computational network includes a server computational device and a client computational device. The server computational device stores one or more container data objects, and a container data object includes a reference to multiple external data objects. The client computational device retrieves a container data object from the server computational device. If the container data object includes a reference to multiple external data objects, the client computational device sends a request to the server computational device. The server computational device provides a response including the multiple external data objects.

Claims

1. A method for data communication, comprising:

receiving, from a client computational device, a request for a plurality of external data objects at a server computational device, wherein the server computational device comprises a container data object with a reference to the plurality of external data objects;

identifying, using the server computational device, a bundle comprising the plurality of external data objects; and

transmitting a response corresponding to the request using the sever computational device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the identifying a bundle comprises searching a memory location for the bundle based upon the plurality of external data objects, the memory location comprising at least one of a temporary memory location or a permanent memory location.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising storing the bundle in a temporary memory location.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the identifying a bundle comprises retrieving each of the plurality of external data objects and combining the plurality of external data objects to generate the bundle.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising performing a first level compression of each of the plurality of external data objects.

6. The method according to claim 4, further comprising performing a second level compression of the bundle based on a predefined criterion.

7. The method according to claim 4, further comprising storing the bundle in a memory location, the memory location comprising at least one of a temporary memory location or a permanent memory location.

8. The method according to claim 4, further comprising associating an entity tag with the bundle, wherein the entity tag is an identifier uniquely identifying a version of the bundle.

9. The method according to claim 1 wherein the request comprises an entity tag uniquely identifying a version of the bundle, and wherein the bundle is stored in a temporary memory location in the client computational device.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the response comprises an entity tag and a status code indicating a valid status of the entity tag, wherein the entity tag uniquely identifies a version of the bundle, and wherein the bundle is stored in a temporary memory location in the client computational device.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the response comprises the bundle and an entity tag, wherein the entity tag is an identifier uniquely identifying a version of the bundle.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the response comprises an instruction for the client computational device to store the bundle in a temporary memory location for a predefined interval of time.

13. A data communication system, comprising:

a server computational device configured to connect to a computational network and comprising a container data object with a plurality of external data objects;

a receiving module configured to receive a request for the plurality of external data objects at the server computational device;

a processing module configured to identify a plurality of external data objects based upon the request; and

a serving module configured to generate a response corresponding to the request.

14. The data communication system according to claim 13, further comprising a retrieving module for retrieving each of the plurality of external data objects;

and a bundling module for combining the plurality of external data objects to generate a bundle.

15. The data communication system according to claim 14, wherein the bundling module associates an entity tag with the bundle, wherein the entity tag is an identifier uniquely identifying a version of the bundle.

16. The data communication system according to claim 14, further comprising a first compression module to perform a first level compression of each of the plurality of external data objects.

17. The data communication system according to claim 14, further comprising a second compression module to perform a second level compression of the bundle based on a predefined criterion.

18. The data communication system according to claim 14, further comprising a memory location for storing the bundle, the memory location comprising at least one of a temporary memory location or a permanent memory location.

19. The data communication system according to claim 13, wherein the request for the plurality of external objects comprises an entity tag of a stored bundle comprising the plurality of external objects, wherein the entity tag is an identifier uniquely identifying a version of the stored bundle, and wherein the stored bundle is stored in a temporary memory location in the client computational device.

20. The data communication system according to claim 13, wherein the response comprises a status code indicating a valid status of an entity tag of a stored bundle comprising the plurality of external objects, wherein the entity tag included in the request is an identifier uniquely identifying a version of the stored bundle, and wherein the stored bundle is stored in a temporary memory location in the client computational device.

21. The data communication system according to claim 14, wherein the response comprises the bundle and an entity tag, wherein the entity tag is an identifier uniquely identifying a version of the bundle.

22. The data communication system according to claim 14, wherein the response comprises an instruction for the client computational device to store the bundle in a temporary memory location for a predefined interval of time.

23. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions, the plurality of instructions comprising:

instructions to receive, from a client computational device, a request for a plurality of external data objects at a server computational device, wherein the server computational device comprises a container data object with a reference to the plurality of external data objects;

instructions to identify, using the server computational device, a bundle comprising the plurality of external data objects; and

instructions to transmit a response corresponding to the request using the sever computational device.