Patent ID: 6298373
Filing Date: 2001-10-02
Classification: G06F,H04B,H04L

Abstract:
A local service provider for facilitating delivery of continuous data content from a content provider to individual content rendering units, the content serving unit comprising:a computer programmed to detect a peak time when the content rendering units are likely to request the particular target resource and to schedule a request for the particular target resource at a selected time prior to the peak time;a cache memory to store the particular target resource received from the content provider in response to the scheduled requests;a continuous media server to store any continuous data files referenced in the particular target resource; andthe computer being further programmed to serve the particular target resource stored in the cache memory to a content rendering unit during the peak time, and if requested by the content rendering unit, to initiate transmission of a continuous data file from the continuous media server that is referenced in the target resource.