Patent ID: 7650416
Filing Date: 2010-01-19
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. In a network supporting transactions between clients and servers, wherein clients request transactions and servers issue responses responsive to the client requests, a method of transporting data comprising: identifying user affinity for a data object, wherein the user affinity of the data object indicates which user or users are associated with the data object; dynamically identifying one or more user locations, wherein a user location represents an association between a user and a preload node, wherein a preload node is a network location wherein preloaded data can be stored to overcome one or more operating characteristics of the network; transporting the data object, in advance of a request from a first client on behalf of a first user having a user affinity for the data object, from a first server to a first preload node representative of a user location for the first user, wherein dynamically identifying user locations comprises: wherein transporting the data object, in advance of the request from the first client, from the first server to the first preload node includes: