Patent ID: 11910032
Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least a portion of a media asset is a first portion of the media asset, the method further comprising:
receiving, from the user equipment device, a request to access a second portion of a media asset;
in response to determining that the second portion of the media asset is not stored in the cache:
determining whether the edge server should be selected to obtain the second portion of the media asset via the first network or the user equipment device should be selected to obtain the second portion of the media asset via the second network; and

in response to determining that the edge server should be selected to obtain the second portion of the media asset via the first network from a content server, causing the second portion of the media asset to be obtained using the selected edge server via the first network.