Patent ID: 8270986
Filing Date: 2012-09-18
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for content transmission in a cellular network having a plurality of cellular zones, comprising: obtaining a statistical trace associated with the cellular network, wherein the statistical trace comprises attributes of historical content chunks received from prior users of the cellular network and trajectories of the prior users moving within the plurality of cellular zones, wherein the attributes of the historical content chunks are indexed by the plurality of cellular zones; analyzing, using a central processing unit (CPU) of a computer, the statistical trace to identify a portion of the plurality of cellular zones as drop zones; allocating drop zone transmission bandwidth to the drop zones based on a pre-determined criterion; receiving, subsequent to the allocating, a transmission request for a content chunk from a mobile device of a user outside the drop zones; delaying transmission of the content chunk while the mobile device remains outside of the drop zones; and transmitting the content chunk in response to detecting the mobile device within the drop zones.