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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 24, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventor:

Nimrod Megiddo, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/861 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/2814 (2013.01); H04L 49/9005 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/327 (2013.01);
Abstract

One embodiment of a method, executed by one or more processors, includes receiving a request from a client for a network resource, selecting a previously-serviced client as a proxy client, forwarding the request to the proxy client, receiving the network resource from the proxy client, and forwarding the network resource to the client. In another embodiment, the method includes receiving a request from a client for a network resource, selecting a proxy client from a dynamic pool of proxy clients that are each capable of requesting the network resource, and directing the request from the client to the proxy client. The selected proxy client may be the client whose request immediately preceded the current request. A computer system and computer program product corresponding to the method are also disclosed herein.


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