Patent ID: 9215424
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a first wireless router to process a request issued by a connected client device for an item of multimedia content data available from a remote multimedia content provider, said first wireless router being connected to said remote multimedia content provider via a wide area network data link, and having a wireless interface for generating a first wireless network, said first wireless network intersecting with a second wireless network created by a second wireless router, said second wireless router having a data store containing said item of multimedia content data, the method comprising: intercepting the request issued by the connected client device; determining whether said requested item of content data is available in a data store of the first wireless router; if the requested item of content data is available in the data store of the first wireless router, transferring the requested item of content data to the connected client device; if the requested item of content data is not available in the data store of the first wireless router: transferring the requested item of content data from the data store of the first wireless router to the connected client device.