PERFORMANCE ENHANCING PROXY FOR HIGH LATENCY DATA

摘要

A system and method for reducing the impact of high latency links for interactive applications Fig. 2 is described. In one embodiment, a user, connected to the Internet by a satellite network, requests a web page from an origin server 101, Fig. 2. The origin server generates an index page associated with the requested web page and passes that index page to a gateway PEP performance enhancing proxy 145, Fig. 2, which parses the index page to identify the objects identified therein. Next, the gateway PEP generates the requests to prefetch those identified objects and passes those requests to the origin server. These objects are then retrieved and pushed to the user 150, Fig. 2. To avoid repetitive requests, the fetch requests normally generated by a web browser are blocked by a client PEP.