PRE-DELIVERY OF CONTENT TO DEVICES
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1. A method, comprising:
- assigning a user device to a group of user devices that receive content from a common network edge cache;
identifying one or more differences between content delivered to the user device and content delivered to the group of user devices via the common network edge cache;
selecting a piece of content to deliver to the user device based on the identified one or more differences of content; and
causing delivery of the selected piece of content to the user device.
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Abstract
Systems and methods for pre-delivering content to user devices are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods may assign a user device to a group of user devices that receive content from a common network edge cache, identify one or more differences between content delivered to the user device and content delivered to the group of user devices via the common network edge cache, select a piece of content to deliver to the user device based on the identified one or more differences of content, and cause delivery of the selected piece of content to the user device.
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21 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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assigning a user device to a group of user devices that receive content from a common network edge cache; identifying one or more differences between content delivered to the user device and content delivered to the group of user devices via the common network edge cache; selecting a piece of content to deliver to the user device based on the identified one or more differences of content; and causing delivery of the selected piece of content to the user device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system, comprising:
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a device assignment module that assigns a user device to a group of user devices that receive content from a common network edge cache; a content difference module that identifies one or more differences between content delivered to the user device and content delivered to the group of user devices via the common network edge cache; a content selection module that selects a piece of content to deliver to the user device based on the identified one or more differences of content; and a content delivery module that causes delivery of the selected piece of content to the user device. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer-readable storage medium whose contents, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations to pre-deliver content to a user device from a network edge cache, the operations comprising:
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assigning the user device to a group of other user devices associated with the network edge cache based on a match of content preferences for a user associated with the user device to content preferences for users associated with the group of other user devices; identifying content viewed by a threshold number of user devices within the identified group of user devices but not viewed by the user device; and delivering the identified content to a local cache of the user device. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21)
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