Router Relay Proxy for ISP Network Bandwidth Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Internet service providers face challenges in maintaining high-quality network environments as user numbers increase, often requiring additional bandwidth or infrastructure investments to avoid congestion and poor performance.
Innovation Solution
A method where a router acts as a relay proxy, enabling network devices to communicate and access data through a tunnel instead of a server, reducing server bandwidth utilization and costs by designating the router as an intermediate node for data transfer between devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If ISPs rent more bandwidth or invest in new facilities to accommodate increasing users, then network quality and performance are maintained, but operational costs and infrastructure complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a relay proxy mechanism where existing routers act as intermediaries to forward data between network devices. This mediator approach allows data transmission without requiring additional bandwidth from the ISP's core infrastructure, thereby maintaining network quality while avoiding the need to rent more bandwidth or invest in new facilities.
2Loss of energy
If ISPs continue to serve increasing numbers of users with existing infrastructure, then operational costs are reduced, but network congestion and performance degradation occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables network devices to establish direct peer-to-peer connections through relay proxies, allowing data transmission to occur independently without consuming the ISP's core bandwidth resources. This self-service mechanism reduces bandwidth utilization on the ISP's infrastructure while maintaining network performance, as data flows directly between devices rather than through the ISP's limited bandwidth channels.
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AI summary
The present invention is to provide a method of making a router act as a relay proxy, which is applied to a network system comprising a server of an Internet service provider, at least a router, the Internet and at least two network devices, wherein the router and network devices are connected with the server through the Internet respectively. The method comprises the steps of designating the router as a relay proxy when the router receives and accepts a relay request from the server, and directing the network devices to connect to the router designated as a relay proxy respectively when the server attempts to connect the network devices which enables the network devices to communicate and proceed data access with each other through the relay proxy. Thus, the data access with each other of said network devices may be accomplished through said relay proxy instead of said server.