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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2006
Cayce M. Ullman, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian L. Matthews, Kent, WA (US);
Cayce M. Ullman, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian L. Matthews, Kent, WA (US);
PostX Corporation, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments are described that leverage commonly used HTML tags to enable the transfer of large quantities of data in a network. Embodiments are described where large amounts of data can be sent to a server by fragmenting data into small portions and encoding each portion as part of a URL contained in, for example, the src attribute of an <img> tag. The path of this URL can refer to a predetermined resource contained on the server that is responsible for retrieving fragments of data from the requested URL. Each fragment of data can be sent together with whatever additional pieces of information are required by the server to correctly reassemble the portions to obtain the original, defragmented data. Methods are described that enable a client to communicate an arbitrarily large amount of data to a server using only the GET method.