Patent ID: 9729603
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: associating at least one cache replacement granularity value with a given one of a plurality of content streams, the given content stream comprising a plurality of segments; dividing the given content stream into two or more portions each comprising two or more segments, a number of segments in each of the two or more portions being based at least in part on a value of the at least one cache replacement granularity associated with the given content stream; receiving a request for a given segment of the given content stream in a network element; identifying a given one of the two or more portions of the given content stream which contains the given segment; updating a value corresponding to the given portion of the given content stream; and determining whether to store the given portion of the given content stream in a memory of the network element based at least in part on the updated value corresponding to the given portion; wherein the updated value is a timestamp.