Patent ID: 9049198
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: G06F,H03M,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for reducing number of outgoing packets used by a fragment pull protocol, comprising: aggregating a plurality of fragment pull protocol requests into an aggregated message; transmitting the aggregated message to a relay server, wherein the relay server distributes the requests to at least two fractional-storage servers; and receiving, by an assembling device from the at least two fractional-storage servers, a plurality of fragments in response to the aggregated message, via physical communication transport paths that do not comprise the relay server; wherein size of the fragments received in response to the aggregated message is significantly greater than size of the aggregated message, the relay server distributes a large amount of requests to the at least two fractional-storage servers, and the relay server is operative to have significantly less bandwidth than the bandwidth required to transmit all the fragments received in response to the requests distributed by the relay server to the at least two fractional-storage servers as a result of the receiving the fragments via the physical communication transport paths that do not comprise the relay server.