Patent · US Active

Distributed caching

US10574774B2 · kind B2 · utility

0Cited by
1References
38Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventor

Key dates

Filing dateDec 27, 2012
Grant dateFeb 25, 2020
Priority date
Expiry dateApr 15, 2035

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W4/18
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

There is provided a method of providing cached content in a telecommunications network. The method comprises requesting content from a caching system (S12.1). At a local cache (305), fragments are associated with the requested content (S12.5) and sent towards a user (S12.6). An identifier for the user and any of an identifier for the requested content and an index of each identified fragment is sent towards a mirror cache upstream of the local cache (S12.7). Prior to the local cache (305) identifying the fragments associated with the requested content, the mirror cache may identify fragments associated with the requested content (S12.3), and send a key comprising the index of each fragment to the local cache (305) (S12.4). The fragments will then be identified at the local cache (305) (S12.5) using the key.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.