Patent ID: 9350765
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for effecting inbound concurrent session balancing for a client of a local area network utilizing a first IP address and a second IP address assigned to the client side proxy controller, with respect to downloading a client-remote data file from a first remote server, comprising the proxy controller: receiving a download session request from a client-side target for the data file from the first remote server; and splitting the download session request into a first outbound session having a first source address and a second outbound session having a second source address, wherein the first source address comprises the first IP address of the client-side proxy controller and the second source address comprises the second IP address of the client-side proxy controller; using information found in the download session request and at least one link utilization metric in a path selector to concurrently initiate the first and second outbound session requests to the first remote server via the first and second IP addresses, respectively; wherein the first outbound session request is used to initiate download of a first segment of the data file across a first network gateway associated with the first IP address, and the second outbound session request is used to initiate an at least partially concurrent download of a second segment of the data file across a second network gateway associated with the second IP address; wherein the second network gateway is different from the first network gateway; and wherein the first and second network gateways are each local to the client-side proxy controller.