Adapative, Personal Localized Cache Control Server

• US 20140189034A1
• Filed: 12/28/2012
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.), Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cellco Partnership, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.), Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Draznin, Sagiv, Chang, Patricia R., Kotecha, Lalit R., Rados, Steven R., Polehn, Donna L., Haynes, Thomas W.
• Granted Patent: US 9,544,944 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/213
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/18 between terminal devices

Abstract

A server may be configured to receive an indication that a first user device stores a particular content item; receive, from a second user device, a request for content; and determine that the requested content is available from the first user device. The determining may include determining that the particular content item stored by the first user device corresponds to the request for content, and determining that a local peer connection is available between the first user device and the second user device. The server may further output, to the first user device, an instruction to output the requested content to the second user device via the local peer connection, and/or the server may output, to the second user device, information which may allow the second user device to request the content from the first user device via a local peer connection.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a server device, an indication that a first user device stores a particular content item;

receiving, by the server device and from a second user device, a request for content;

determining, by the server device, that the requested content is available from the first user device, the determining including;

determining that the particular content item stored by the first user device corresponds to the request for content, and

determining that a local peer connection is available between the first user device and the second user device; and

outputting, by the server device and to the second user device, information indicating that the requested content is available from the first user device, the information allowing the second user device to receive the requested content from the first user device via the local peer connection.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the local peer connection is a direct wireless connection between the first user device and the second user device, without any other devices intervening in a signal path between the first user device and the second user device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the requested content is available from the first user device further comprises:

determining that the particular content item, stored by the first user device, is not expired.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the requested content is available from the first user device further comprises:

determining whether a cache sharing capability score, associated with the first user device, exceeds a threshold value.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the cache sharing capability score is based on at least one of:

a strength of a radio transceiver associated with the first user device,

a battery level associated with the first user device, or

a set of user preferences, relating to sharing content, associated with the first user device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the particular content item corresponds to a particular web page that was previously cached by the first user device, wherein the request for content includes a request for the particular web page.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the local peer connection is available between the first user device and the second user device includes determining that the first user device is within a particular distance of the second user device.

8. A server device, comprising:

one or more memory devices to store a set of instructions; and

one or more processors to execute the instructions, to;

receive an indication that a first user device stores a particular content item;

receive, from a second user device, a request for content;

determine that the requested content is available from the first user device, the determining including;

determining that the particular content item stored by the first user device corresponds to the request for content, and

determining that a local peer connection is available between the first user device and the second user device; and

output, to the first user device, an instruction to output the requested content to the second user device via the local peer connection.

9. The server device of claim 8, wherein the local peer connection is a direct wireless connection between the first user device and the second user device, without any other devices intervening in a signal path between the first user device and the second user device.

10. The server device of claim 8, wherein when determining that the requested content is available from the first user device, the one or more processors are to:

determine that the particular content item, stored by the first user device, is not expired.

11. The server device of claim 8, wherein when determining that the requested content is available from the first user device, the one or more processors are to:

determine whether a cache sharing capability score, associated with the first user device, exceeds a threshold value.

12. The server device of claim 11, wherein the cache sharing capability score is based on at least one of:

a strength of a radio transceiver associated with the first user device,

a battery level associated with the first user device, or

a set of user preferences, relating to sharing content, associated with the first user device.

13. The server device of claim 8, wherein the particular content item corresponds to a particular web page that was previously cached by the first user device, wherein the request for content includes a request for the particular web page.

14. The server device of claim 8, wherein when determining that the local peer connection is available between the first user device and the second user device, the one or more processors are to determine that the first user device is within a particular distance of the second user device.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the local peer connection is a direct wireless connection between the first user device and the second user device, without any other devices intervening in a signal path between the first user device and the second user device.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the computer-executable instructions, which cause the one or more processors to determine that the requested content is available from the first user device, further cause the one or more processors to:

determine that the particular content item, stored by the first user device, is not expired.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the computer-executable instructions, which cause the one or more processors to determine that the requested content is available from the first user device, further cause the one or more processors to:

determine whether a cache sharing capability score, associated with the first user device, exceeds a threshold value.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the cache sharing capability score is based on at least one of:

a strength of a radio transceiver associated with the first user device,

a battery level associated with the first user device, or

a set of user preferences, relating to sharing content, associated with the first user device.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the particular content item corresponds to a particular web page that was previously cached by the first user device, wherein the request for content includes a request for the particular web page.

15. A computer-readable medium, comprising:

a plurality of computer-executable instructions, which, when executed by one or more processors of a server device, cause the one or more processors to;

receive an indication that a first user device stores a particular content item;

receive, from a second user device, a request for content;

determine that the requested content is available from the first user device, the determining including;

determining that the particular content item stored by the first user device corresponds to the request for content, and

determining that a local peer connection is available between the first user device and the second user device; and

output, to the first user device, an instruction to output the requested content to the second user device via the local peer connection.