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(12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,417,833 B1 Amdahl (45) Date of Patent: Apr USOO841 7833B1 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,417,833 B1 Amdahl (45) Date of Patent: Apr. 9, 2013 (54) METACODEC FOR OPTIMIZING NETWORK 1992, A ck 3. 3. al et al. 375,240 DATA COMPRESSION BASED ON - - aO . COMPARISON OF WRITE AND READ RATES 4,971.407 A 11/1990 Hofman (Continued) (75) Inventor: s Carl Amdahl, Los Gatos, CA FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS EP O929 173 A2 7, 1999 (73) Assignee: F5 Networks, Inc., Seattle, WA (US) EP O947 104 B1 11, 2002 (Continued) (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 OTHER PUBLICATIONS U.S.C. 154(b) by 601 days. Cheng, J.M., et al. "A fast, highly reliable data compression chip and algorithm for storage systems.” IBM, vol. 40, No. 6, Nov. 1996, 11 (21) Appl. No.: 11/564,805 pg.S. (22) Filed: Nov. 29, 2006 (Continued) Primary Examiner — Alina N Boutah (51) as is (2006.01) Assistant Examiner — Clarence John G06F I3/00 (2006.015 (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Frommer Lawrence & G06F 3/28 (2006.01) Haug LLP: John W. Branch H04F 2/28 (2006.01) (57) ABSTRACT (52) U.S. Cl. ........ 709/247; 370/389: 711/167; 711/168; 711/169: 711/170: 711/171: 711/172: 711/173 A method, system, and apparatus are directed towards selec ... s s s f389: tively compressing data for transmission over a network. In (58) Field of Classification Search .......... 370/389; one embodiment, a sending network device and receiving 709/247; 711/ 167 173 network device negotiates different compression modes to See application file for complete search history. communicate data between them. An initial compression mode may be selected based on a network bandwidth. The (56) References Cited sending network device then reads data, and compresses using the selected compression mode. 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