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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2018
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Stephen L. Ludin, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Moritz M Steiner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin T. Flack, San Francisco, CA (US);
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Cooperative Multipath (referred to herein as 'CM') significantly improves upon the current state of the art for multipath HTTP and MP-TCP. In CM, a client application will discover and/or connect to N endpoints, over N different paths. Preferably these different paths go through different networks. Hence, each path may provide a unique communication channel, potentially with unique characteristics. A typical (but not limiting) case would be N=2, with the client application connecting over, for example, cellular interface to a first endpoint, and over WiFi to a second endpoint. Wireline interfaces may also be used.