SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS TO A SERVER

摘要

A method for managing connections between at least one client [14(1)-14(z)] and at least one data server [60(1)-60(y)], said method comprises: (a) providing an intermediary connection apparatus [2] comprising connections to a plurality of clients [14(1)-14(z)] over a WAN or a LAN environment, said apparatus comprising memory buffers and at least one connection to each of said at least one data server(s) [60(1)-60(y)] being continuously open; (b) establishing a client network connection between said apparatus (20) and one of said clients [14(1)-14(z)]via a network; (c) receiving a client request to receive a response from a data server [60(1)-60(y)] over said client network connection; (d) forwarding to the data server [60(1)-60(y)] either a request or a partial request ; (e) limiting the size of the response or partial response that the server [60(1)-60(y)is allowed to provide at a given time to said apparatus in response to said client request; and (f) buffering data encoding requests and responses in said apparatus according to data traffic load over the connection to said server [60(1)-60(y)] and to said client [14(1)-14(z)], respectively.