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US 2007/0192474 A1Published application
Personalized Content Delivery Using Peer-To-Peer Precaching
AssigneeOrbital Data Corporation
InventorsDan Decasper, Zubin Dittia
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for peer-to-peer video precaching is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises building a user profile, periodically checking for new content of objects in the user profile, maintaining a data base of available objects and location of said objects, and determining the download location of an object requested by a user.
Claims35
A method for delivering by a controller a content object to a client for precaching, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving from a client, by a controller, a profile identifying a resource subscribed to by a user, the client comprising an end node of a local network and having a browser operated by the user;
- (b) determining, by the controller, that a content object stored on a content server corresponds to the resource identified by the profile;
- and
- (c) transmitting, by the controller, a message to the client to initiate a download of the content object from a location identified by the message.
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A controller device for delivering a content object to a client for precaching, the controller device comprising:
- means for receiving from a client a profile identifying a resource subscribed to by a user, the client comprising an end node of a local network and having a browser operated by the user;
- means for determining that a content object stored on a content server corresponds to the resource identified by the profile;
- and
- means for transmitting a message to the client to initiate a download of the content object from a location identified by the message.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.