Object caching for mobile data communication with mobility management

A system for object caching with mobility management for mobile data communication, comprising:

• a processor;
• a network containing one or more base stations, wherein the network supports mobility management of data transfer to and from a user equipment;
• an object cache component at a base station for intercepting and snooping data communications between the user equipment and a content server without terminating communications;
• an object cache server in the network, wherein the object cache server is configured to:
• proxy communications to the content server from the user equipment;
• synchronize components at the base station and object cache server for maintaining synchrony between a fake TCP socket of an object cache at the base station and a real TCP socket of an object cache at the object cache server by causing the fake TCP socket of the object cache at the base station to imitate the real TCP socket of the object cache at the object cache server;
• detect a movement of the user equipment from the base station while a requested object is being served to the user equipment from a cache of the base station;
• and
• take over serving the requested object based on the detecting, wherein the taking over includes providing a remainder of the requested object by the object cache server.

A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium and loadable into the internal memory of a digital computer, comprising software code portions, that, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to perform object caching with mobility management for mobile data communication by performing actions comprising:

• intercepting and snooping data communications at a base station between a user equipment and a content server without terminating communications;
• determining the snooping data communications is cacheable based on a cache hit at the base station;
• implementing object caching at the base station using the snooping-data communications;
• implementing object caching at an object cache server in the network, wherein the object cache server proxies communications to the content server from the user equipment;
• maintaining synchrony between an object cache at the base station and an object cache at the object cache server by monitoring a state of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) of the object cache server;
• and
• detecting a movement of the user equipment from the base station while a requested object is being served to the user equipment from a cache of the base station;
• and
• taking over serving the requested object based on the detecting, wherein the taking over includes providing a remainder of the requested object by the object cache server.