Attribute-Selected Tunnel Devices for Faster Web Content Fetching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication technologies over the Internet face inefficiencies in content fetching due to suboptimal selection of intermediate nodes, leading to delays and resource wastage.
Innovation Solution
The use of tunnel devices as intermediate nodes, selected based on criteria such as attribute type and value, to enhance communication efficiency and content fetching.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional intermediate nodes are used for content fetching, then basic communication functionality is maintained, but communication efficiency deteriorates and delays increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces tunnel devices as intermediary nodes between content requestors and web servers. These tunnel devices establish persistent connections to web servers and cache content locally, acting as mediators that serve subsequent requests without requiring direct client-server communication. This intermediary approach resolves the contradiction by maintaining basic communication functionality while dramatically improving efficiency and reducing delays through localized content delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The tunnel devices perform preliminary actions by establishing persistent connections to web servers in advance and pre-caching content before actual requests arrive. The system proactively maintains ready-to-use communication channels and stores content locally, so when requests come in, no connection establishment or content retrieval delays occur. This preliminary preparation directly addresses the time loss issue while maintaining communication functionality.
2Productivity
If more intermediate nodes are deployed to improve content fetching, then communication efficiency improves, but resource wastage increases
Solution Approach 1:
Each tunnel device is designed as a universal node that can serve multiple different web servers and handle various types of content requests. Rather than deploying specialized nodes for each server, the system uses multi-functional tunnel devices that can cache and deliver content from any web server they connect to. This universality reduces the total number of nodes needed, improving communication efficiency while minimizing resource wastage through consolidated infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple functions into the tunnel device architecture: connection management, content caching, request routing, and content delivery all occur within the same intermediate node. By combining these functions that could be performed by separate systems, the patent reduces overall resource consumption while maintaining high communication efficiency. The merged architecture eliminates redundant operations and consolidates resource usage across the network.
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AI summary
A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The tunnel device is selected based on an attribute, such as IP Geolocation. A tunnel bank server stores a list of available tunnels that may be used, associated with values of various attribute types. The tunnel devices initiate communication with the tunnel bank server, and stays connected to it, for allowing a communication session initiated by the tunnel bank server. Upon receiving a request from a client to a content and for specific attribute types and values, a tunnel is selected by the tunnel bank server, and is used as a tunnel for retrieving the required content from the web server, using standard protocol such as SOCKS, WebSocket or HTTP Proxy. The client only communicates with a super proxy server that manages the content fetching scheme.