US 8,943,162 B2Granted

Data services using location patterns and intelligent caching

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorBrad L. Brech

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Abstract

Pre-caching may decrease the response time necessary for a wireless communication network to fulfill a user request. Pre-caching includes predicting what data the user will request next and preemptively fetching that data from a network (e.g., the Internet). Additionally, the wireless communication network may predict the geographic location of the mobile device when it makes the request. Instead of pre-caching the data in the memory of the mobile device, the data may be stored at a wireless access point that has a radiation pattern that covers the predicted geographic location of the mobile device. Once the wireless access point receives the request from the mobile device for the pre-cached data, the pre-cached data may be transmitted wirelessly to the mobile device, thereby avoiding having to forward the request to rest of the communication network.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A method of pre-caching data in a communication network, comprising:

determining a data usage pattern for a computing device, the data usage pattern comprising a plurality of previous requests from a user of the computing device to access data from the communication network;
determining a location pattern for the computing device, the location pattern comprising a previous physical location of the computing device;
predicting, based on the data usage pattern, a future request from the computing device to access data from the communication network, wherein the previous and future requests access data at a same address;
predicting a future physical location of the computing device based on the location pattern;
and
selecting a storage location from a plurality of storage locations that are external to the computing device based on the predicted future physical location, wherein the storage location stores the data associated with the future request.

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Facts

Application: 13/710,579Filed 11 Dec 2012 · continuation
Priority: 7 Dec 2011
Published: US 2013/0151652 A113 Jun 2013
Granted: 27 Jan 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H04W 4/029
Services making use of location information: location-based management or tracking services
G06F 3/0604
Specifically adapted to achieve a particular effect: improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management
G06F 3/0647
Horizontal data movement in storage systems, i.e. moving data in between storage devices or systems: migration mechanisms
G06F 3/067
Adopting a particular infrastructure: distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]

Family

Application13/313,779Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Dec 2011
US 2013/0151654 A1Pre-grant publication · published 13 Jun 2013
US 2013/0151652 A1Published application
US 8,924,503 B2Related patent
US 8,943,162 B2This patent

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