Abstract: A communication channel in a network maintains client-server transparency while providing reduced bandwidth in the channel. A first and second node can communicate a compressed form of the object data between themselves in the channel. One of the first or second nodes hosts a cache database that can store, transparently to the client, the requested object data. The stored object data can be used to decompress the compressed object data communicated between the first and second node. One of the nodes can provide control signals to the other node to indicate whether the requested object data is stored in the cache database. This configuration preserves transparency between the client and the server while permitting reduced bandwidth usage between the first and second nodes via the compressed object data.

Abstract: Communication apparatus and methods of transmitting data in a lossless compressed form over non-reliable communication links with very low complexity and high flexibility. The communication apparatus and methods operate by interleaving the compressed data utilizing a plurality of compression/decompression devices in an interleaved fashion.