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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1999
John B. Geagan, III, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael D. Kellner, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alagu S. Periyannan, Fremont, CA (US);
Cacheflow, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
In the face of unacceptable data loss on connections between a content source and a content consumer, additional connections therebetween are opened. These additional connections are preferably opened between the content source and a proxy disposed between the content source and the content consumer. The proxy may then seam together data streams received from the content source across the additional connections before passing a resultant seamed stream to the content consumer. The seamed stream may be constructed by filling in information gaps in any of the data streams received from the content source with content derived from others of the data streams received from the content source. This derivation may be made on the basis of identifying characteristics (e.g., packet sequence numbers and/or time stamps) common throughout each of the data streams received from the content source.