Patent ID: 9258666
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing enhanced quality of experience (QoE) to mobile device users comprising: inspecting, at a monitoring device associated with a communications link, packet headers and payloads from packets transmitted over said communications link between the mobile device and a current communications network edge node providing a point of attachment to said network; extracting, from said inspected packet payloads, application-specific state data of one or more user applications currently running in the mobile device, said application-specific state data including identities of specific one or more application-aware edge-node server proxy devices servicing said user applications on mobile device, and logging said application-specific state data in a storage device external to the current communications network edge node or application-aware edge-node server proxy device, said logged application-specific state data comprising: web links to cached objects that had been requested by a user application; selecting, for each identified edge-node server proxy device, a method of reconstructing a state of a user application, said selecting comprising communicating a list of said web links to a destination EdgeApp server that will service the mobile device at a destination network edge-node; detecting a migration of said mobile device from said current point of attachment network to another attachment point at the destination network edge-node; populating, responsive to said detecting, said application-specific state data from storage at the current network edge node to a storage device associated with said destination network edge-node and pre-fetching said cached objects from said list of web links for storage at the destination network edge-node prior to said migration; and reconstructing, based on said selected method, said application state of said currently running one or more mobile device user applications at the destination application-aware edge-node proxy server device at said destination network edge-node to enable seamless continued service to the mobile device user prior to the destination network edge-node becoming a new point of attachment for said mobile device.