Patent ID: 9749403
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of managing content distribution in a mobile communications environment comprising a core network and a multitude of end-user devices, the method comprising: downloading content from the core network to the end-user devices: maintaining a map between the end-user devices, the content downloaded to the end-user devices, and the locations of the end-user devices; when a first of the end-user devices requests a specified content, using said map and one or more given rules to identify a second of the end-user devices having the specified content for downloading the specified content to said first of the end-user devices, including receiving the request at a network element having knowledge of the location of the content, and the network element rewriting the request so that the specified content is downloaded to the first of the end-user devices from the second of the end-user devices, the rewriting including extracting an embedded content descriptor from the request, selecting a location of the specified content, including inputting the content descriptor to a content lookup module, and based on output from the content lookup module and a network congestion monitoring module, calculating a content retrieval location, and rewriting the embedded content descriptor to enable the first of the end-user devices to fetch the specified content from the second of the end-user devices; returning the re-written embedded content descriptor to the first of the end-user devices; and said first of the end-user devices fetching the specified content from the identified second of the end-user devices; and wherein the downloading content includes pre-pushing the specified content, before the specified content is requested, to one of a group of locations based on a classification of the specified content; and the pre-pushing the specified content includes determining when and where to pre-push the specified content, and how long to keep the specified content in storage, by correlating spatio-temporal patterns over multiple users, and correlating the spatio-temporal patterns over multiple servers at different locations of the mobile communications environment.