Patent ID: 11870871
Assignee: TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of operating an edge node in a communications network, the method comprising:
receiving, at the edge node, a general content popularity list;
initializing local content popularity information in the form of a local popularity list using content popularity values obtained from said general content popularity list, said initializing including using, at the edge node, the general content popularity list as the local popularity list;
receiving, at the edge node, a request for content;
determining, by the edge node, a response to be taken, in response to the request for content, based on local popularity of the requested content, said step of determining a response to be taken including determining that requested content is below a threshold on the local popularity list; and
implementing, by the edge node, the determined response to be taken, said determined response including serving the requested content without caching the requested content in a cache.