Patent ID: 9591093
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of caching content for delivery to a user device via a mobile communication network having distributed caches corresponding to different service areas within the mobile communication network, said method comprising: identifying a first distributed cache for a first service area corresponding to a location detected or expected for the user device; determining the content for caching in the first distributed cache, based on content caching at a user-specific cache belonging to a content delivery network affiliated with a user of the user device; and initiating caching of the content in the first distributed cache for delivery to the user device via the mobile communication network at least when the content is not already available in the first distributed cache for delivery to the user device; wherein initiating the caching of the content in the first distributed cache is performed on a conditional basis, responsive to determining that the content is not available in the first distributed cache for delivery to the user device; and wherein determining that the content is not available in the first distributed cache for delivery to the user device comprises at least one of: determining that the content is not present in the first distributed cache, and determining that digital rights management information needed for delivery of the content to the user device is not present in the first distributed cache.