METHOD AND APPARAUTS FOR ACCELERATING LOADING OF MOBILE APPLICATION CONTENT

• US 20180181409A1
• Filed: 06/21/2017
• Published: 06/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Original Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Inventors: HAN, Dongsu, CHOI, Byung kwon, KIM, Jeong min
• Granted Patent: US 10,452,405 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching

Abstract

The present disclosure in some embodiments provides a method and an apparatus for accelerated loading of mobile application content which are capable of automatically discover opportunities for application acceleration to remarkably reduce a response time of a mobile application.

Claims

1. A method for accelerating loading of mobile application content by using a proxy, the method comprising:

receiving at least one mobile application as an input;

analyzing said at least one mobile application by using the input;

generating an application-specific proxy dedicated to said at least one mobile application by using results from analyzing said at least one mobile application;

generating prefetching content by prefetching content which is likely to correspond to a user'"'"'s request by using the application-specific proxy; and

transmitting the content to the user in response to the user'"'"'s request.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said analyzing includes extracting at least one of regex signatures including ‘

request URI’

information, ‘

request body’

information, ‘

request header’

information and ‘

dependency’

information generated by said at least one mobile application.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said generating includes:

determining at least one selected among dynamic prefetching, dynamic caching, compression of unused content and removal of unused content which are to be included in the application-specific proxy, by using the results from said analyzing said at least one mobile application.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the dynamic prefetching performs prefetching based on an object and a time to be prefetched.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said generating the prefetching content includes:

determining whether prefetching content corresponding to the request by the user is generated; and

transmitting the prefetching content to the user if the prefetching content is generated, and receiving content corresponding to the request by the user from a server and transmitting the content to the user if the prefetching content is not generated.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

checking whether a first transaction which obtains content corresponding to the user'"'"'s request from the server to transmit the content to the user is a parent of at least one other transaction.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said checking includes:

identifying a number assigned to the first transaction based on ‘

request URI’

information, ‘

request header’

information and ‘

request body’

information among regex signatures.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein said checking includes:

checking whether a child transaction exists, by using the number assigned to the first transaction and ‘

dependency’

information among the regex signatures.

9. The method of claim 8, processing the user'"'"'s next request if the first transaction is determined not to be a parent of the at least one other transaction.

10. The method of claim 9, further including:

extracting values used to form a request of said at least one other transaction of responses included in the first transaction if the first transaction is found to be a parent of the at least one other transaction.

11. The method of claim 10, including:

checking whether sufficient information required to form the request of the at least one other transaction is collected.

12. An apparatus for accelerating loading of mobile application content by using a proxy, comprising:

an automatic application-specific proxy generator for receiving application binary information to analyze the application binary information and to calculate acceleration features that are suitable for an application; and

a proxy including;

a content prefetching module for prefetching content which is likely to correspond to a request signal from a server before the request signal arrives; and

a data comparison module to compare first content which is prefetched by the content prefetching module with second content corresponding to the request signal if the first content is identical to the second content; and

a data transmission/reception unit to transmit the first content to a user terminal.