Patent ID: 8831041

Claim:
A method for optimizing transmission of network traffic, the method comprising: receiving, by a network optimization engine executing on an appliance, data packets transmitted over a network; analyzing, by the network optimization engine, each of the received data packets to calculate a compression ratio for each data packet; determining, by the network optimization engine, a compression ratio threshold based on a sampling of the compression ratios of a portion the received data packets; classifying, by the network optimization engine, a first set of the received data packets having a compression ratio exceeding the compression ratio threshold as highly compressed traffic and a second set of the received data packets having a compression ratio not exceeding the compression ratio threshold as non-highly compressed traffic; transmitting the first set of the received data packets classified as highly compressed traffic according to a first transmission scheme; and transmitting the second set of the received data packets classified as non-highly compressed traffic according to a second transmission scheme, the first transmission scheme differing the second transmission scheme.