Intel Corporation

Alcatel Lucent

Jin Jing

Michael Man-Hak Tso

Soon Teck Gibson Ang

Jie Wang

Robert Conrad Knauerhase

David Alfred Romrell

Bikram Singh Bakshi

Daniel Joshua Gillespie

Seshardi Sathyanarayan

A system and method of enabling transmission control protocol (TCP) splice between a client application and a server, while maintaining control of the connections by a contest-based charging proxy. The system framework includes a TCP splicing module for splicing connections between a client application and a server, an application proxy (e.g., content-based charging proxy) for redirecting a request of the client application, and a content-based charging engine for determining the classification of the data flow between the client application and the server. If the data flow has a predetermined classification or a triggering event has been detected, the content-based charging engine transfers control of the connections to the application proxy. The application proxy, for example, can redirect the client application to a predetermined service or source based on the classification of the data flow.

System and method of enabling TCP splice with a content-based charging proxy

A system and method of enabling transmission control protocol (TCP) splice between a client application and a server, while maintaining control of the connections by a content-based charging proxy. The system framework includes a TCP splicing module for splicing connections between a client application and a server, an application proxy (e.g., content-based charging proxy) for redirecting a request of the client application, and a content-based charging engine for determining the classification of the data flow between the client application and the server. If the data flow has a predetermined classification or a triggering event has been detected, the content-based charging engine transfers control of the connections to the application proxy. The application proxy, for example, can redirect the client application to a predetermined service or source based on the classification of the data flow.

A method for maintaining a common resource shared by a plurality of entities, wherein the common resource contains a plurality of entries each of which is associated with one of the plurality of entities, includes the steps of determining an amount of the common resource occupied by entries associated with a given one of the plurality of entities; and removing a number of the associated entries from the common resource to reduce the occupied amount if the occupied amount exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Method for protective cache replacement

A system for enhancing data access over a communications link is disclosed. In accordance with a particular embodiment, a system for retrieving an object over a computer network includes a network client with a browser for rendering an object to a user and a user interface enabling the user to establish an encoding preference. A remote scaling server is coupled between the network client and the computer network, and includes a remote proxy and an encode service provider. The remote scaling server is configured to request a user-specified encoding preference from the network client, retrieve an object from the computer network using the remote proxy, encode the object using the encode service provider in accordance with the requested user-specified encoding preference, and transmit the encoded object to the network client using the remote proxy. The disclosed system thus enables users to dynamically influence the trade-off between quality of content and download speed.

Scaling proxy server sending to the client a graphical user interface for establishing object encoding preferences after receiving the client's request for the object

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