Method and system for dynamically pre-positioning content in a network based detecting or predicting user presence

• US 7,610,280 B2
• Filed: 05/05/2005
• Issued: 10/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Morris, Stephen, Lapolito, Anthony, O'Toole, James
• Primary Examiner(s): Mahmoudi; Tony
• Assistant Examiner(s): Truong; Dennis
• Application Number:
  US11/124,494
• Publication Number:
  US 20060253444A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,636 Days
• Field of Search: 707/1, 707/5, 707/101, 709/217, 709/206, 709/246, 706/45, 706/46, 705/8
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99935 Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation

Abstract

A method, system and apparatus are provided for dynamically pre-positioning content from servers located in a network, which may be a content distribution network. The content is pre-positioned on a proxy server, and the pre-positioning is triggered by at least one of the scheduling of an event and the presence of a user. Users commuting between different locations of a company can quickly and easily access the pre-positioned content. This content may be prioritized and pre-positioned, based on a user requiring a specific content at a particular time.

Claims

1. A method for accessing content from one or more servers in a network, the method comprising:

parsing a data source to determine event information for a scheduled event at a first location;

determining user presence information that is detected based on a user being present at a second location, the user presence information determined based on active presence detected for the user at the second location;

determining first content that is deemed likely that a user will access while present at the first location and second content that is deemed likely that the user will access while present at the second location;

determining a priority for pre-positioning the first and second content based on different priorities assigned to the event information for the scheduled event and the user presence information based on active presence, wherein one of the first or second content is determined to be of a higher priority; and

automatically pre-positioning the first or second content based on the determined priority, the determined priority pre-positioning the first content before the second content or the second content before the first content based on whichever the first or second content is determined to be of the higher priority, the pre-positioning performed by moving the first or second content from a first storage location to a second storage location to enable quicker access the accessing of the first or second content by the user from the second storage location while the user is at the first location or second location.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising pre-positioning the content based on user presence detection.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the user presence detection is based on an instant messaging system.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the user presence detection is based on a user badge system.

5. The method of claim 2 wherein the user presence detection is based on a user-authentication system.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the user presence detection is based on a telephony network.

7. The method of claim 2 further comprising triggering the pre-positioning of the content based on a predictive user presence.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising prioritizing the content based on at least one of the user presence detection, prediction and the scheduling of the event.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining if the user is expected to be present at the event by analyzing the event information to determine a user identifier for the user that is used to schedule the event and associating the user identifier with the user.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein determining first content that is deemed likely that the user will access comprises determining a content identifier from the event information and associating the content identifier with the first content.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the priority weightings are based on a priority of the user needing to access the first content or the second content.

19. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

processing the first and second content to determine the different priorities to assign based on a type of information associated with the first and second content; and

assigning the different priorities to the first and second content based on the processing.

9. A system for accessing content from one or more servers in a network, the system comprising:

means for parsing a data source to determine event information for a scheduled event at a first location;

means for determining user presence information that is detected based on a user being present at a second location, the user presence information determined based on active presence detected for the user at the second location;

means for determining first content that is deemed likely that a user will access while present at the first location and second content that is deemed likely that the user will access while present at the second location;

means for determining a priority for pre-positioning the first and second content based on different priorities assigned to the event information for the scheduled event and the user presence information based on active presence, wherein one of the first or second content is determined to be of a higher priority; and

means for automatically pre-positioning of the first or second based on the determined priority, the determined priority pre-positioning the first content before the second content or the second content before the first content based on whichever the first or second content is determined to be of the higher priority, the pre-positioning performed by moving the first or second content from a first storage location to a second storage location to enable quicker access of the first or second content by the user from the second storage location while the user is at the first location or second location.

10. A system for accessing content from one or more servers in a network, the system comprising:

an event trigger system for parsing a data source to determine event information for a scheduled event at a first location;

determining user presence information that is detected based on a user being present at a second location, the user presence information determined based on active presence detected for the user at the second location;

determining first content that is deemed likely that a user will access while present at the first location and second content that is deemed likely that the user will access while present at the second location;

determining a priority for pre-positioning the first and second content based on different priorities assigned to the event information for the scheduled event and the user presence information based on active presence, wherein one of the first or second content is determined to be of a higher priority;

an action module for automatically pre-positioning the first or second content based on the determined priority, the determined priority pre-positioning the first content before the second content or the second content before the first content based on whichever the first or second content is determined to be of the higher priority, the pre-positioning performed by moving the first or second content from a first storage location to a second storage location to enable quicker access of the first or second content by the user from the second storage location while the user is at the first location or second location; and

a proxy server for storing the whichever of the first or second content being pre-positioned.

11. The system of claim 10 further comprising a user-presence system for triggering pre-positioning of the content based on a user presence.

12. The system of claim 10 further comprises an event retriever for retrieving the schedule of the event.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the user presence system comprises a user presence detector for at least one of detecting and predicting the presence of one or more user, the user requesting access to the content.

14. A computer-readable storage medium including instructions executable by the processor for accessing content from one or more servers in a network, the computer-readable storage medium comprising:

one or more instructions for parsing a data source to determine event information for a scheduled event at a first location;

one or more instructions for determining user presence information that is detected based on a user being present at a second location, the user presence information determined based on active presence detected for the user at the second location;

one or more instructions for determining first content that is deemed likely that a user will access while present at the first location and second content that is deemed likely that the user will access while present at the second location;

one or more instructions for determining a priority for pre-positioning the first and second content based on different priorities assigned to the event information for the scheduled event and the user presence information based on active presence, wherein one of the first or second content is determined to be of a higher priority; and

one or more instructions for automatically pre-positioning the first or second content based on the determined priority, the determined priority pre-positioning the first content before the second content or the second content before the first content based on whichever the first or second content is determined to be of the higher priority, the pre-positioning performed by moving the first or second content from a first storage location to a second storage location to enable quicker access of the first or second content by the user from the second storage location while the user is at the first location or second location.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, further comprising one or more instructions for determining content that is deemed likely that the user will access includes one or more instructions for determining a content identifier from the event information and associating the content identifier with the content.