Patent ID: 9652293
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A system which provides data decompression in a traffic director environment, comprising: a traffic director, executing on one or more microprocessors, wherein the traffic director includes a plurality of traffic director instances that use a single virtual IP address for receipt of requests from a client, wherein the traffic director is configured to communicate the requests from the client to origin servers having one or more pools of resource servers; and a cache in the traffic director, wherein the cache is enabled for use with one or more of the origin servers, for caching data corresponding to origin server content, wherein the traffic director compresses the data prior to caching the data; wherein the traffic director is configured to make use of hardware-assisted compression primitives provided by the one or more microprocessors to improve performance of the data compression and decompression, and operates to