Patent ID: 9721616
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06F,G11B,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for pre-delivering content to a user device, the method comprising: accessing information describing a first video content of interest, wherein a first media file relating to the first video content of interest is being played back to a user by a mobile application of a user device; identifying, based on the information associated with the first video content of interest, a second video content of interest that is associated with the first video content of interest and is available for playback by the mobile application, the second video content of interest being a different content from the first video content of interest; and causing at least partial pre-delivery, to a local cache of the user device, of a second media file relating to the second video content of interest while the first media file is being played back to the user by the mobile application, the second media file being a different media file than the first media file, wherein causing at least partial pre-delivery of the second media file relating to the second video content of interest includes: identifying a first second video content of interest having a first file size; identifying a second video content of interest having a second file size that is smaller than the first file size; and causing pre-delivery of the second video content of interest to the local cache of the user device before causing pre-delivery of the first second video content of interest to the local cache of the user device.