Method and System for Hoarding Content on Mobile Clients

• US 20080140941A1
• Filed: 12/07/2006
• Published: 06/12/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Nayak, Tapan Kumar, Dasgupta, Gargi B., Viswanathan, Balaji
• Application Number:
  US11/567,936
• Publication Number:
  US 20080140941A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/137
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/172 Caching, prefetching or hoarding of files

Abstract

A device and method for efficient hoarding content set on a mobile client prior to disconnection of the mobile client from a network. The content set to be hoarded on the mobile client and a respective schedule for hoarding the content set on the mobile client are dynamically computed by considering various real times factors such as file utilities, device capabilities and network connectivity that affect the performance of the mobile client and the hoarding process.

Claims

1. A method for hoarding content on a requesting entity comprising:

computing a schedule for hoarding a content set at the requesting entity;

receiving the content set at the requesting entity;

hoarding the received content set on the requesting entity;

computing the content set to be hoarded at the requesting entity;

computing a utility value for each of the entities in the content set;

prioritizing each of the entities in the content set in an order of importance based on the utility value;

transmitting a request comprising the content set from the requesting entity to a respective servicing entity at the computed schedule;

transmitting said request from the requesting entity to a respective intermediate communication medium,

pre-fetching the respective content set from the servicing entity;

caching the content set on the intermediate communications medium;

initiating a push mechanism on the intermediate communication medium to push the content set to the requesting entity at the computed schedule; and

updating the intermediate communication medium by transmitting the request from the requesting entity to the intermediate communication medium at periodic intervals,

wherein the request comprises the content set and the computed schedule,

wherein the request comprises the content set,

wherein the intermediated communicating medium is configured to compute a schedule for hoarding the content set,

wherein the intermediated communicating medium is configured to compute the content set and a respective schedule for hoarding the content set,

wherein the content set comprises entities and respective attributes associated with each of the entities, and

wherein the intermediate communication medium is configured to perform in addition the function of a server.

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