Abstract Combining parallel Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) connections and pipelining
overcomes an impact of increasing Round Trip Time (RTT) by varying in real time the …

BACKGROUND The basic purpose of HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) caching is to
provide a mechanism for applications to scale better and perform faster. HTTP caching …

BACKGROUND As the Internet grows, users expect web pages to load quickly and to
provide instance access to content. This is difficult when web pages include multiple HTTP …

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for increasing the performance of
world-wide-web tra? ic over the Internet. A distributed network of specialized nodes of two …

The invention uses a distributed network of specialized nodes of different types dispersed
around the Internet. In operation, web client's requests are directed to a node of a first type …

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for increasing the performance of
World-wide-web traffic Over the Internet. A distributed network of specialized nodes of two …

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for increasing the performance of
world-wide-web traffic over the Internet. A distributed network of specialized nodes of two …

2. Description of the Related Art Web performance is a key point of differentiation among
content providers. Crashes and Slowdowns within major Web sites demonstrate the …

BACKGROUND While increasingly more Successful in their roles as Store and forward data
Systems, computer networkS Such as the Internet are experiencing tremendous growth as …

In a client/server environment, rendering of web-based content is separated into two phases,
so as to improve the applicability of HTML response caching. Static portion (s) of a web page …