Patent ID: 9742862
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A communication network adapted to deliver content to a mobile communication device communicatively coupled to an access node of the communication network, said network comprising: a gateway between said communication network and one or more content sources; a multimedia router functionally associated with said gateway and including communication circuitry to route streams of content from the one or more content sources to mobile communication devices, through access points of said communication network; a border gateway functionally associated with said multimedia router and adapted to: (1) identify redundant data packets being streamed to a given access node, wherein a redundant data packet is a data packet containing content identical to content contained in a different data stream or identical to content stored in a cache of the communication network, (2) replace redundant data packets with token packets, representing the redundant packets without containing the identical content; and (3) stream the token packets to the given access node in place of the redundant packets; and access nodes functionally associated with stream generating circuitry adapted to regenerate an original stream of content from token packets using data from a local cache or a different stream.