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Systems and methods for predictive caching of digital content

  • US 9,690,869 B2
  • Filed: 02/13/2013
  • Issued: 06/27/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer system comprising:

  • at least one processor;

    at least one memory having instructions stored thereon that are executable so the computer system;

    wherein the computer system stores at least one particular digital file in a synched online content management system;

    receives at the synched online content management system, from a user of a client device, a request to access the at least one particular digital file stored on a remote server through a network connection;

    stores at least one second digital file in the synched content management system;

    determines a relationship between the at least one particular digital file in the synched online content management system and the at least one second digital file in the synched online content management system, wherein the relationship includes a sequence involving both the at least one particular digital file and the at least one second digital file;

    selects, via the synched content management system, the at least one second digital file in the synched online content management system to cache locally on the client device based on the relationship between the at least one particular digital file and the at least one second digital file and further based on at least one file-accessing tendency of the user, including the request to access at least one particular digital file, and a regional based reading habit, wherein the regional based reading habit includes both a manner in which digital content is typically accessed and a direction in which the user reads in their native language, thereby predictively caching digital files displayed to the right of the at least one particular digital file when the native language is read from right-to-left and predictively caching digital files displayed to the left of the at least one particular digital file when the native language is read from left-to-right and wherein the at least one second digital file follows the requested at least one particular digital file in the sequence of files, the sequence predicted by the regional based reading habit;

    downloads the at least one second digital file from the remote server to the client device; and

    saves the downloaded at least one second digital file to the at least one memory associated with the client device for later access by the user.

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