Patent ID: 8639268

Claim:
A mobile communication network comprising: a media controller (MC) for tracking popularity statistics of cells of the network; a location database (LDB) connected to the MC for storing the statistics; a position monitor (PM) connected to the MC for detecting a position of subscribers within the network; and at least one local cache (LC) connected to the MC and for pre-storing content to be delivered to the subscribers, wherein the MC: receives content and subscriber information and communicates portions of the received information to the PM, to the LDB and to the LC, wherein the information received by the MC includes content identification, subscriber identification and environmental parameters characteristic to delivery of media corresponding to the identified content, said parameters including location parameters for restricting delivery of content to pre-determined cells and by a pre-determined time, the MC transmits identification of subscribers and environmental parameters to the PM and the PM monitors the location of the identified subscribers, the MC instructs the LDB to set a new record for the received content identification and related parameters, the MC receives content identification and a delivery time for delivering the identified content to the subscribers, and the MC requests information from the LDB for the identified content and the LDB provides a list of cells and subscriber and download popularity statistics for each of the cells to the MC based on historical information.