Tunnel Device Selection for Location-Aware 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 potential bottlenecks and reduced performance.
Innovation Solution
The use of tunnel devices as intermediate nodes selected based on specific attributes and values, such as IP Geolocation, to enhance content fetching from web servers through protocols like SOCKS, WebSocket, or HTTP Proxy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional content fetching methods are used without optimized intermediate node selection, then the system is simpler to implement, but content fetching efficiency deteriorates due to bottlenecks and suboptimal routing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces tunnel devices as intermediary nodes between content sources and consumers. These tunnel devices act as mediators that receive content from sources, store it in distributed storage, and serve it to consumers based on location-based routing. This intermediary layer optimizes content fetching by preventing direct bottlenecks between sources and consumers, thereby improving productivity without requiring complete system redesign.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically changes routing parameters based on geographic location data. By incorporating location information into the routing decision-making process, the system can select optimal tunnel devices based on proximity to both content sources and consumers. This parameter-based approach enables efficient content delivery while maintaining manageable system complexity through standardized routing logic.
2Productivity
If location-based tunnel device selection is implemented, then content fetching performance improves by reducing bottlenecks, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring optimal routes increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where tunnel devices report their location data, storage capacity, and current content availability. This feedback enables the routing system to make informed decisions about which tunnel devices to use for specific content requests. The feedback loop continuously optimizes route selection based on current system state, improving throughput while keeping the detection and measurement processes manageable through standardized metrics.
3Reliability
If multiple tunnel devices are used as intermediate nodes, then system reliability improves through distributed content delivery, but device complexity increases due to coordination requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments content delivery into independent tunnel device operations. Each tunnel device operates autonomously with its own storage and routing capabilities, eliminating the need for complex centralized coordination. This segmentation improves reliability by allowing any single tunnel device to independently serve content requests, while the overall system benefits from distributed redundancy without proportionally increasing coordination complexity.
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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.