Patent ID: 11877025
Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 21:
22. The method of claim 21, wherein:
a UE gateway receives an upstream service instance request for a specific content item by a corresponding UE and, upon determining that a mapping for the specific content item is not in its cache list, forwards an upstream path registration request to a connected service switch to initiate a path registration process for defining a downstream data path for the specific content item from the corresponding content server to the corresponding UE; and
a service switch receives an upstream service instance request for a specific content item by a corresponding UE and, upon determining that a mapping for the specific content item is not in its cache list, forwards an upstream path registration request to a connected upstream CDN node to initiate a path registration process for defining a downstream data path for the specific content item from the corresponding content server to the corresponding UE.