Abstract: An intermediate network device intercepts a packet flow associated with a communication session between a client device and a server, splits the intercepted packet flow of the communication session into a plurality of application-layer data channels, wherein each application-layer data channel represents an independent stream of application-layer data within the communication session, performs Quality of Service (QoS) processing on the application-layer data channels, combines the plurality of QoS-processed application-layer data channels into a combined packet flow, and outputs the combined packet flow onto the communication session between the client device and the server.

Abstract: An intermediate network device intercepts a packet flow associated with a communication session between a client device and a server, splits the intercepted packet flow of the communication session into a plurality of application-layer data channels, wherein each application-layer data channel represents an independent stream of application-layer data within the communication session, performs Quality of Service (QoS) processing on the application-layer data channels, combines the plurality of QoS-processed application-layer data channels into a combined packet flow, and outputs the combined packet flow onto the communication session between the client device and the server.

Abstract: A network acceleration device is described that caches resources (e.g., files or other content) to a cache space organized into logically separate views. The views represent an abstraction that defines sets of the cached resources according to the client devices that requested the resources. The network acceleration device associates each view with a specific client device or user, and caches content requested by that specific user to the user's associated view. The network acceleration device herein may achieve a higher level of caching and increased network acceleration over a conventional network acceleration device that maintains a single cache space and shares content among multiple client devices.

Abstract: An advertising method for presenting an advertisement at a point of purchase includes transmitting advertising information from a server to a mobile telephone network; receiving the advertising information at the mobile telephone network; transmitting the advertising information from the mobile telephone network via a mobile telephone transmission to a display located at a point of purchase; receiving the mobile telephone transmission at the display; and playing an advertisement on the display based on the advertising information received by the display.