| 摘要 |
<p>A method and apparatus is disclosed for increasing the world-wide-web traffic over the Internet with the aid of distributed specialized nodes of two types while retaining standard communication protocols, clients and servers. Accordingly, web client (10)'s request is directed to a specialized first node of the first type (12-1), chosen suitably close to web client (10), using a standard protocol (11). First node (12-1) communicates, using a specialized protocol (13) for improved performance and specifically to reduce traffic volume and latency, web client (10)'s request to a second node (14-2) of the second type. Second node (14-2), chosen suitably close to the request's ultimate destination (16), forwards the request to destination (16) employing standard protocol (11). Responses from the destination (16) to the client (10) typically take the corresponding reverse route. Additionally, specialized nodes can employ other techniques including web caches to avoid or improve some communication steps.</p> |
