Method and system for upload optimization

1. A method comprising:

(a) employing an upload-rate-controlling server (URCS) that is communicatively coupled between a plurality of mobile devices (MD) through an access gateway (AGW) and a plurality of Internet Protocol (IP) servers;

(b) the AGW being configured to perform the actions of:

(i) intercepting at least one stream of packets from a plurality of the streams of packets that are transferred between one of the MDs from the plurality of MDs and one of the IP server from the plurality of IP servers;

(ii) determining that the intercepted stream of packets belong to an upload session; and

(iii) transferring the intercepted stream of packets to the URCS

(c) the URCS being configured to perform the action of manipulating the one MD from the plurality of MDs to maintain a transmitting rate of the intercepted stream of packets of the upload session.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the URCS is configured to perform the actions of manipulating the one MD from the plurality of MDs to maintain the transmitting rate of the intercepted stream of packets of the upload session by:

(1) determining that one or more packets are missed in the intercepted stream of packets;

(2) sending, toward the one MD, a selective acknowledge (SACK) packet indicating the one or more packets that are missed;

(3) obtaining the one or more missed packets; and

(4) sending a duplicating-selective ACK (DSACK) indicating that the obtained one or more packets were not missed but were obtained out of order.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the intercepted stream of packets that belong to the upload session carry media content.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the action of manipulating the one MD to maintain the transmitting rate of the intercepted stream of packets of the upload session, further comprising adapting a value of a receive window sent toward the MD to be based on a number of bytes obtained from the one MD within a measure period (MP).

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the MP is based on a time threshold (TT) used by intermediate nodes, located over connection between the one MD and the URCS, for dropping stored packets of the intercepted stream of packets that belong to the upload session.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the URCS is further configured to perform the action of calculating a value of a next receiving window (NRW) proportional to an amount of bytes that are obtained (NoBY) during an MP and a number of MP that are included in the TT.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the URCS is further configured to control the transmitting rate of the one MD by:

(a) estimating a delay of the intercepted stream of packets of the upload session;

(b) adapting the value of a next receive window (NRW) such that the delay of the intercepted stream of packets of the upload session is smaller than a value of a time threshold (TT) used by intermediate nodes along the upload connection for dropping packets.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the NRW is proportional to the value of TT and inversely-proportional to the transmitting rate of the intercepted stream of packets of the upload session.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the URCS is further configured to perform the action of calculating a delay of the intercepted stream of packets by:

(a) obtaining a value for a propagation delay along one or more intermediate nodes;

(b) measuring a value of a round trip time (RTT) of the intercepted stream; and

(c) reducing the value of the propagation delay from the value of the RTT.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein in order to measure the RTT during an ongoing upload session the URCS is further configured to perform the actions of using a unique receiving window, which is substantially greater than a receiving window that is mostly used in the upload session.