System and Method for Improving Internet Communication by Using Intermediate Nodes

• US 20180219970A1
• Filed: 07/30/2017
• Published: 08/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bright Data, Ltd. (f/k/a Luminati Networks)
• Original Assignee: Bright Data, Ltd. (f/k/a Luminati Networks)
• Inventors: Shribman, Derry, Vilenski, Ofer
• Granted Patent: US 10,277,711 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0864 Round trip delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/029 Firewall traversal, e.g. tunnelling or, creating pinholes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0407 wherein the identity of one or more communicating identities is hidden cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for anonymous credentials or for identity based cryptographic systems H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/59 Providing operational support to end devices by off-loading in the network or by emulation, e.g. when they are unavailable
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The client device access an acceleration server to receive a list of available tunnel devices. The requested content is partitioned into slices, and the client device sends a request for the slices to the available tunnel devices. The tunnel devices in turn fetch the slices from the data server, and send the slices to the client device, where the content is reconstructed from the received slices. A client device may also serve as a tunnel device, serving as an intermediate device to other client devices. Similarly, a tunnel device may also serve as a client device for fetching content from a data server. The selection of tunnel devices to be used by a client device may be in the acceleration server, in the client device, or in both. The partition into slices may be overlapping or non-overlapping, and the same slice (or the whole content) may be fetched via multiple tunnel devices.

Claims

1. A method for fetching over the Internet a first content, identified by a first content identifier, by a first device, identified in the Internet by a first identifier, from a second server identified in the Internet by a third identifier via a second device identified in the Internet by a second identifier, for use with a third device identified in the Internet by a fourth identifier, using a first server, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving, by the first server over the Internet, the second identifier from the second device;

(b) in response to receiving the second identifier, storing, by the first server, the second identifier;

(c) receiving, by the first server over the Internet, a first request from the first device;

(d) in response to receiving a first request, sending, by the first server over the Internet, the second identifier to the first device;

(e) receiving, by the first server over the Internet, the fourth identifier from the third device;

(f) in response to receiving the fourth identifier, storing, by the first server over the Internet, the fourth identifier; and

(g) in response to receiving the first request, sending, by the first server over the Internet, the fourth identifier to the first device, wherein the second and third devices are client devices.

2. The method according to claim 1, for use with a group consisting of a plurality of devices, each device in the group is associated with a respective identifier for being identified in the Internet, for each of the group devices in the group the method further comprising the steps of:

(h) receiving the associated identifier from the group device;

(i) in response to receiving the associated identifier, storing the associated identifier; and

(j) in response to receiving the first request, sending the identifier of all group devices to the first device.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the second device is included in the group, the method further comprising the step of selecting the second device out of the devices in the group, and wherein in step (d) the sending the second identifier to the first device is in response to the selection.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the second device is randomly selected out of the devices in the group.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the second device is selected based on attributes or characteristics of the device.

6. The method according to claim 3, wherein the second device is selected based on the physical geographical location.

7. The method according to claim 3, wherein the second device is selected based on the second identifier.

8. The method according to claim 3, wherein the second device is selected based on past activities.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the second device is selected based on the timing of an event.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the event is the last communication between the second device.