Patent ID: 6507872
Filing Date: 2003-01-14
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
An improved method for transmitting a multiplicity of data files from a first transmitting computer to a second receiving computer, via a packet-switching digital communications network, utilizing a communications protocol employing port addresses corresponding to data streams wherein the normal mode of operation is to transmit each data file as a data stream of packets separate from the data streams of other data files, wherein said improvement comprises a transmission where:a. said multiplicity of data files comprise a multi-level, hierarchical structured, document; b. for at least two levels, the data files comprising each level are combined with the other data files of that same level to create a composite data structure; c. the composite data structures for each level are transmitted in level order; and, d. said multi-level combined transmission comprises a continuous transmission via a single data stream.