US Patent:
20120078995, Mar 29, 2012
Inventors:
Nitin Jain - San Jose CA, US
Nandan Tammineedi - Los Gatos CA, US
Gabriel Levy - Oakland CA, US
Prashant Murthy - Santa Clara CA, US
Charles Fraleigh - Sunnyvale CA, US
Sumanth Sukumar - San Francisco CA, US
Guy Messalem - Stanford CA, US
Zhen Xue - San Jose CA, US
Assignee:
RIVERBED TECHNOLOGY, INC. - San Francisco CA
International Classification:
G06F 15/16
Abstract:
A system and method are provided for warming a network intermediary (e.g., a proxy, a transaction accelerator) to enable it to provide effective optimization (e.g., data reduction) without a cold start. When a pair of network intermediaries cooperate to optimize a communication connection (e.g., between a client and a server), either or both intermediaries may form branch channels with one or more peers. Via these branch channels, the intermediaries may forward optimization information such as data references received from the other intermediary (i.e., in place of data segments, as part of a data reduction scheme), and/or resolve unknown references.