Patent ID: 9258335
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A system for providing efficient network communications, the system comprising: a plurality of physical computing devices, each physical computing device configured to operate a local connection-aggregation proxy service; and a central connection-aggregation proxy service configured to communicate with each of the local connection-aggregation proxy services; wherein each local connection-aggregation proxy service is configured to: receive a first external network request from a first service operating on the same physical computing device as the respective local connection-aggregation proxy service and a second external network request from a second service operating on the same physical computing device as the respective local connection-aggregation proxy service, respond to the first external network request to form a first intra-device connection and to the second external network request to form a second intra-device connection, establish an external network connection to the central connection-aggregation proxy service in response to the first external network request, determine, based on the establishment of the external network connection to the central connection-aggregation proxy service, not to establish a second external network connection to the central connection-aggregation proxy service in response to the second external network request, relay messages received via the first intra-device connection to the central connection-aggregation proxy service over the external network connection, relay messages received via the second intra-device connections to the central connection-aggregation proxy service over the external network connection in response to the determination not to establish the second external network connection, and maintain the external network connection in response to a determination that at least one of the first intra-device connection or the second intra-device connection is still active.