Patent ID: 6112250
Filing Date: 2000-08-29
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method for increasing available bandwidth in a network system comprising one or more requestor nodes, one or more provider nodes, and one or more intermediate nodes, the method comprising:performing the following at an intermediate node:(a) for each file requested from a provider node in the network system, determining whether the file is a pre-compressed file, each file including a plurality of bytes of data;(b) automatically decompressing, independent of the decompression capabilities of the provider node and a requester node in the network system, the pre-compressed file into decompressed data;(c) automatically recompressing, independent of the compression capabilities of the provider node and the requestor node, the decompressed data into a recompressed file having a greater degree of compression than the pre-compressed file; and(d) providing the recompressed file to the requestor node.