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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2002
Barrett M. Kreiner, Norcross, GA (US);
Donna K. Hodges, Cumming, GA (US);
Jonathan M. Peterson, Atlanta, GA (US);
BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Data items that are retrieved in response to a data request are compared to previously retrieved copies of the same data items. Portions of a data item that have not changed relative to the previous version may be specially designated as a virtual-edge-side-asset. The data items are modified to replace portions corresponding to VESA's with references to those VESA's. The modified version of the data item is communicated across the network. At a computing system closer in network proximity to the requesting machine, the data item is again modified to replace references to VESA's with the actual portion of the data item that was removed.