SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONCEALED CONNECTION MERGING THROUGH COORDINATED AND DYNAMIC VIRTUAL PROXY ALLOCATION

摘要

Specialized Internet gateway apparatuses 101 provide Internet access to conventional network-enabled client devices 100 through multiple disjoint segments of the Internet simultaneously by means of multiple Internet access devices and of a “connection-merging protocol”. Virtual relay servers 102, which also implement the connection-merging protocol, act as proxies between the gateway apparatuses 101 and the conventional network-enabled application servers 103 the client devices 100 connected to said gateway apparatuses 101 wish to communicate with. A virtual resource allocation and information server 104 aggregates status and routing information relevant to the gateway apparatuses 101, and dynamically adjusts the number, location and/or performance specifications of running virtual relay servers 102. As a result, a system and method for demand-driven, flexible-topology and intelligently-enabled communication between conventional network-enabled client devices 100 and conventional network-enabled application servers 103 concurrently over multiple conventional segments of the Internet is realized.

主权项

1. A system for demand-driven, flexible-topology and intelligently-enabled communication between at least one network-enabled client device 100 and at least one network-enabled application server 103 over multiple segments of the Internet concurrently; the system comprising:
at least one gateway device 101, wherein the gateway devices 101 each comprise at least two simultaneously-operating Internet access devices 200 and enable each of the client devices 100 to transmit and receive data to and from the application servers 103 through at least two Internet connections simultaneously by means of connection-selection and network data transmission, reception, buffering, validation, and synchronization facilities being referred to as a connection-merging protocol, the merger of a gateway device's 101 multiple Internet connections being referred to as a macro connection; at least one virtual relay machine 102, wherein the relay machines 102 each implement the connection-merging protocol, and act as proxies between the client devices 100 and the application servers 103; and one virtual coordination machine 104 operating on the Internet, wherein the virtual coordination machine 104 aggregates system status metrics, and launches, configures and terminates relay machines 102 according to said metrics, and instructs the gateway devices 101 as to which of the relay machines 102 to proxy Internet traffic originating from the client devices 100 through.