Patent ID: 6449658
Filing Date: 2002-09-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A system for data transfer acceleration comprising:an accelerator client associated with a client computer, said accelerator client intercepting data transferred between the client computer and a communications network service provider via a first communications link, wherein said accelerator client compresses data transmitted from the client computer to the communications network service provider, and forwards said compressed data to said communications network service provider, and said accelerator client decompresses compressed data transmitted from the communications network service provider to the client computer, and forwards said uncompressed data to said client computer; and an accelerator server for intercepting data transferred between the communications network service provider and a communications network, via a second communications link, wherein said accelerator server decompresses compressed data transmitted from the communications network service provider to the communications network, and forwards the uncompressed data to the communications network, and said accelerator server compresses data transmitted from the communications network to the communications network service provider, and forwards the compressed data to the communications network service provider, wherein at least one of said accelerator client and said accelerator server includes: parsing means for parsing uncompressed data into media and non-media objects; and compressing means for compressing at a quality Q said media and non-media objects, in accordance with a compression algorithm, wherein said quality Q is variable in accordance with object type.