Patent ID: 8880633
Filing Date: 2014-11-04
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. Computer apparatus for delivering content to a client over a computer network, the apparatus comprising: circuitry forming a processor; computer memory; an operating system; an HTTP proxy that has an output buffer associated therewith; and a byte-based interpreter associated with the HTTP proxy, the byte-based interpreter taking data from one or more sources and, using one or more actions, instructing the HTTP proxy as to what order, and from which source, to fill the output buffer to generate a response to a client HTTP request; wherein the byte-based interpreter interprets byte-specific instruction that exhibit a syntax of a language an specify the one or more sources and the one or more actions to be taken to fill the output buffer; and wherein the byte-based instructions interpreted by the byte-based interpreter were retrieved by the apparatus from another apparatus in response to any of (i) the client HTTP request and (ii) a previous client HTTP request to the HTTP proxy.