Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery – Data processing system error or fault handling – Reliability and availability
Patent
1997-02-24
2000-04-11
Beausoliel, Jr., Robert W.
Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery
Data processing system error or fault handling
Reliability and availability
714748, G06F 1114
Patent
active
060498927
ABSTRACT:
A download of a data file from a server computer to a client computer is monitored by the client computer. The download is restarted automatically if a failure occurs. A failure may be a timeout, a loss of a connection, data errors, or other errors that terminate the download. The download may be restarted by instructing the server computer to start reading from a specified offset corresponding to an amount of data that was received reliably by the client, so that data is not unnecessarily retransmitted. This process increases the likelihood that a download will complete successfully. The client program, if specialized for performing downloads, may be stored at the server. In response to a request to download a file, the client program is downloaded first, with the location of the requested file stored within the program. The client program is then executed on the client computer to transfer the requested file. The client program can be made sufficiently small so that downloading of the client program takes little time. The client program can be executed immediately, at a time specified by the user or upon command from the user.
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Casagrande Steve M.
Ioffe Edward
Baderman Scott T.
Beausoliel, Jr. Robert W.
Cohen Jerry
Ethos Software Corporation
Paul Edwin H.
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