Patent ID: 9596281
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for accelerating, by a transport accelerator (TA) of a client device, delivery of content to a user agent (UA) of the client device from a content server, the method comprising: determining, by a connection manager (CM) of the TA, target content chunk size information for chunks of the content used for delivery of the content from the content server to the CM; signaling, from the CM to a request manager (RM) of the TA, the determined target content chunk size information, wherein the signaling is in association with the CM signaling that it is ready for another chunk request from the RM; receiving, by the RM, fragment requests provided by the UA; determining, by the RM, a size of one or more content chunks of chunk requests for content of the fragment requests provided by the UA based on the target content chunk size information signaled from the CM to the RM; subdividing, by the RM, the fragment requests provided by the UA each into a plurality of chunk requests for requesting content chunks of the size determined by the RM based on the target content chunk size information signaled from the CM to the RM; providing, by the RM to the CM, chunk requests for content chunks having the size determined by the RM based on the target content chunk size information signaled from the CM to the RM for the CM requesting chunks of the content from the content server; and requesting, by the CM, the chunks of the content having the size determined by the RM from the content server via a plurality of connections established between the CM and the content server.