APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS UTILIZING DISPERSIVE NETWORKING

• US 20110179136A1
• Filed: 01/14/2011
• Published: 07/21/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dispersive Holdings Incorporated (Dispersive Networks, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dispersive Networks, Inc.
• Inventors: Twitchell, Robert W. JR.
• Granted Patent: US 8,560,634 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45562 Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/028 by filtering
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/586 of virtual routers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/125 by balancing the load, e.g. traffic engineering
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/15 in relation to multipoint traffic arrangements for broadcast or multicast in data networks H04L12/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2416 Real-time traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• 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 69/14 Multichannel or multilink protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/18 Multiprotocol handlers, e.g. single devices capable of handling multiple protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/32 Architecture of open systems interconnection [OSI] 7-layer type protocol stacks, e.g. the interfaces between the data link level and the physical level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/327 in the session layer [OSI layer 5]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

An electronic device configured for electronic communications utilizing virtual dispersive networking includes: a network interface for communicating over a network; an application loaded onto the electronic device programmed to communicate over a network; and virtual dispersive networking software configured to create, for such application, a virtual machine comprising a virtual interface for the network interface of the electronic device; select a network protocol out of a plurality of available network protocols based on current communication requirements of the application; and cause network communications of the application to occur via the virtual network interface of the electronic device using the determined network protocol.

Claims

1. An electronic device configured for electronic communications utilizing virtual dispersive networking comprising:

(a) a network interface for communicating over a network;

(b) an application loaded onto the electronic device programmed to communicate over a network; and

(c) virtual dispersive networking software configured to,

(i) create, for such application, a virtual machine comprising a virtual interface for the network interface of the electronic device,

(ii) select a network protocol out of a plurality of available network protocols based on current communication requirements of the application, and

(iii) cause network communications of the application to occur via the virtual network interface of the electronic device using the determined network protocol.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the software is further configured to create multiple virtual machines, each virtual machine being associated with communications of a respective application of a plurality of applications of the electronic device, each respective application being programmed to communicate with the network, wherein communications via each virtual machine uses a networking protocol that has been selected in accordance with the software based on the current communication requirements of the respective application.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device comprises a personal computer.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device comprises a desktop computer.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device comprises a portable computer.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device comprises a mobile communications device.

7. A method of transferring a file between first and second end-user devices via network communications, comprising the steps of:

(a) first,

(i) communicating by the first end-user device, to a server, network contact information of the first end-user device, and

(ii) communicating by the second end-user device, to the server, network contact information of the second end-user device; and

(b) thereafter, transferring the file from the first end-user device to the second end-user device by,

(i) communicating, by the first end-user device, a request to the server to engage in a file transfer with the second end-user device by the first end-user device,

(ii) communicating, by the server, the file transfer request received from the first end-user device,

(iii) communicating, by the second end-user device, acceptance to the server of the request to engage in a file transfer with the first end-user device,

(iv) communicating connection information, by the server, to the first and second end-user devices for enabling an open network connection between the first and second end-user devices, and

(v) initiating, by the first and second end-user devices, through the open network connection, the file transfer based on the connection information received from the server.

8. A system in which a file is transferred between first and second end-user devices via network communications, comprising:

(a) a server;

(b) a first end-user device configured for network communications with the server, through which network communications the first end-user device keeps the server updated with network contact information of the first end-user device, the server maintaining the network contact information of the first end-user device for reference;

(c) a second end-user device configured for network communications with the server, through which network communications the second end-user device keeps the server updated with network contact information of the second end-user device, the server maintaining the network contact information of the second end-user device for reference; and

(d) wherein the server, first end-user device, and second-end user device include respective software the collectively enable the transfer of the file from the first end-user device to the second end-user device through,

(i) communication, by the first end-user device, of a request to the server to engage in a file transfer with the second end-user device by the first end-user device,

(ii) communication, by the server, of the file transfer request received from the first end-user device,

(iii) communication, by the second end-user device, of acceptance to the server of the request to engage in a file transfer with the first end-user device by the second end-user device,

(iv) communication, by the server, of connection information to the first and second end-user devices for enabling an open network connection between the first and second end-user devices, and

(v) initiation, by the first and second end-user devices, through the open network connection, of the file transfer based on the connection information received from the server.

9-54. -54. (canceled)