Granted Patent B2

US 7,979,565 · App. 12/199,202 · Granted Jul 12, 2011

Abstract

Claims (16)

1. A method of providing a network service, the method comprising:

accepting an incoming transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) connection from a user device at a point of presence (POP) proxy server, wherein the TCP/IP connection corresponds to a particular application that is not stored at the POP proxy server;

relaying the TCP/IP connection from the POP proxy server to a remote application server that stores the particular application via an accelerated network link, wherein after the POP proxy server relays the TCP/IP connection to the remote application server via the accelerated network link, an effective rate of data transfer between the user device and the remote application server is substantially equal to a rate of data transfer between the user device and the POP server; and

streaming data between the user device and the remote application server after relaying the TCP/IP connection to the remote application server.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising identifying the remote application server that stores the particular application based on data associating a plurality of remote application servers with a plurality of applications.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising selecting the remote application server from a plurality of remote application servers that each store the particular application, based on at least one load-balancing rule.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising opening a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel from the POP proxy server to the remote application server, wherein the TCP/IP connection is relayed from the POP proxy server to the remote application server via the VPN tunnel.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the streamed data includes dynamic data, file transfer data, static content data, web application data, or any combination thereof.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the application is associated with a hypertext transfer protocol network service or a file transfer protocol network service.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including processor-readable instructions that are executable by processing logic to perform a method, the method comprising:

accepting an incoming transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) connection from a user device at a point of presence (POP) proxy server, wherein the TCP/IP connection corresponds to a particular application;

simulating a local presence of a remote application server that stores the particular application, without storing the particular application at the POP proxy server, wherein simulating the local presence includes relaying the TCP/IP connection from the POP proxy server to the remote application server via an accelerated network link and streaming data between the user device and the remote application server after relaying the TCP/IP connection to the remote application server; and

receiving data from the user device at the POP proxy server at a first data transfer rate and receiving data from the remote application server at a second data transfer rate via the accelerated data link, wherein the second data transfer rate is at least 50% greater than the first data transfer rate.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein, after the POP proxy server relays the TCP/IP connection to the remote application server, an effective rate of communication between the user device and the remote application server is substantially equal to the first data transfer rate.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the streamed data is accessible to the user device at a data transfer rate greater than or substantially equal to 2 Mbps.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the user device, the POP proxy server, and the remote application server communicate via the Internet.

Assignments (10)