Patent ID: 11877350
Assignee: MO-DV, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 21:
22. A non-transitory computer readable storage media medium having comprising instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by a system having at least a processor and a memory therein, cause the system to perform a method comprising:
communicating, by access points individually addressing each other, between a plurality of access points comprising a first access point and a second access point that are part of one or more existing networks and form a local area network (LAN) to transfer data between two or more of the plurality of access points using point-to-point links independent of their function in the one or more existing networks, wherein the first access point comprises a first cache and the second access point comprises a second cache within the LAN, wherein each of the first cache and the second cache is to store a content to be forwarded to other access points within the LAN, wherein the first access point is directly connected to a first client device and the second access point is not directly connected to the first client device within the LAN, wherein the LAN is an access network and is independent of the one or more existing networks including a service provider network;
sending, by the first access point, a request for a desired content to one or more second access points of the plurality of access points without a network list for the desired content, the one or more second access points including the second access point and access points throughout the LAN more than one hop away from the first access point within the LAN;
receiving, by the first access point, a response including a content identifier of the desired content, an access point identifier including a media access control address of each of the one or more second access points including the second access point which has at least a portion of the desired content stored in the second cache, and a number of hops for each of the one or more second access points to reach the first access point;
selecting, by the first access point, at least one of the one or more second access points including the second access point which has the at least the portion of the desired content within the LAN based on the number of hops; and
requesting, by the first access point, the at least one of the one or more second access points to transfer the at least the portion of the desired content to the first access point via one or more direct point-to-point transfers between access point pairs of the plurality of access points within the LAN, wherein the first access point is to forward the at least the portion of the desired content from the second access point to the first client device within the LAN.