Patent ID: 8320916

Claim:
A method for delivering content to a given mobile terminal in a wireless communications network, the wireless communications network comprising a plurality of data stores for providing local storage of said content to be delivered to one or more mobile terminals located in corresponding geographical areas associated therewith, given one of said data stores associated with a geographical area in which said given mobile terminal is currently located, the method performed at another one of said data stores which has been identified as being a geographical neighbor to the given one of said data stores, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a notification message from said given one of said data stores that said mobile terminal is having at least a portion of said content delivered thereto by said given one of said data stores; wherein the notification message comprises (i) an identification of the content being delivered to said given mobile terminal by said given one of said data stores, and (ii) one or more offsets into the content being delivered to identify said at least a portion of said content being delivered to said given mobile terminal by said given one of said data stores; and determining whether to pre-fetch at least a portion of said content from one or more network data sources into said other one of said data stores in response to said received notification message, and in advance of and for use in a possible future delivery of at least a portion of said content to said given mobile terminal, wherein said determination of whether to pre-fetch said content is performed based on a transition matrix for indicating a probability of a hand off of a mobile terminal from one of said data stores to another one of said data stores and prioritizing at least a portion of said content, and wherein said one or more network data sources do not comprise said data stores for providing local storage of said content.