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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2004
Applicants:
Mehul S. Shah, Milpitas, CA (US);
J Eric Mowat, Piedmont, CA (US);
Szu-wen Kuo, Milpitas, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Information representing a plurality of clients on a network is stored in a data structure. The data structure may be stored within a server or agent in a content delivery network and may include client network address information. The data structure is dynamically compressed based on network proximity information relating to the clients.