Patent ID: 6810409
Filing Date: 2004-10-26
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method of transmitting data from a first server computer to a client computer via a computer network, the method comprising:requesting a dynamic proxy server computer to run a proxylet for transforming data, which proxylet is referred to by an address within a data store connected to the computer network from where the proxylet is available for dynamic downloading by proxy server computers connected to the computer network; requesting the first server computer to transmit the data to said dynamic proxy server computer; transmitting data from the first server computer to the dynamic proxy server computer in a first encoding format; transforming said data from said first encoding format to a second encoding format at the dynamic proxy server computer utilizing the proxylet dynamically downloaded to the dynamic proxy server computer without substantially changing the information content of said data; and transmitting the transformed said data in said second encoding format to the client computer from the dynamic proxy server computer.