SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING FASTER AND MORE EFFICIENT DATA COMMUNICATION

摘要

A system for increasing network communication speed for users, while lowering network congestion for content owners and ISPs. The system employs network elements including an acceleration server, clients, agents, and peers, where communication requests generated by applications are intercepted by the client on the same machine. The IP address of the server is transmitted to the acceleration server, which provides a list of agents to use for this IP address. One or more of the agents respond with a list of peers that have previously seen some or all of the content which is the response to this request. The client then downloads the data from these peers in parts and in parallel, thereby speeding up the Web transfer.