Pre-fetching of assets to user equipment
AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorsShahid Akhtar, Philippe Laine
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Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for pre-fetching assets from content providers to user equipment (UE). In one embodiment, the UE initiates a pre-fetch operation to download assets from content providers in advance of an end user requesting the assets. The UE accesses a resource profile for the pre-fetch operation that indicates the content providers that have assets for the UE to download in advance for local storage on the UE, and defines a percentage of UE resources allocated to each of the content providers for downloading the assets during the pre-fetch operation. The UE may then download the assets from the content providers based on the resource profile, and store the assets in a local memory.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- User Equipment (UE) configured to initiate a pre-fetch operation to download content stored on servers of content providers over a mobile network in advance of an end user requesting the content;
- the UE is configured to access a resource profile for the pre-fetch operation that defines a percentage of UE resources within the UE that are allocated to each of the content providers for downloading the content from the servers of the content providers to the UE during the pre-fetch operation;
- the UE is configured to download the content from the servers of the content providers over the mobile network based on the percentage of UE resources allocated to each of the content providers, and to store the content in local storage.
A method comprising:
- initiating a pre-fetch operation in User Equipment (UE) to download content stored on servers of content providers over a mobile network in advance of an end user requesting the content;
- accessing a resource profile for the pre-fetch operation in the UE that defines a percentage of UE resources within the UE that are allocated to each of the content providers for downloading the content from the servers of the content providers to the UE during the pre-fetch operation;
- downloading the content from the servers of the content providers to the UE over the mobile network based on the percentage of UE resources allocated to each of the content providers;
- and
- storing the content in local storage within the UE.
A non-transitory computer readable medium tangibly embodying programmed instructions which, when executed by a processor in User Equipment (UE), are operable to perform a pre-fetch operation, the method comprising:
- initiating the pre-fetch operation in the UE to download content stored on servers of content providers over a mobile network in advance of an end user requesting the content;
- accessing a resource profile for the pre-fetch operation in the UE that defines a percentage of UE resources within the UE that are allocated to each of the content providers for downloading the content from the servers of the content providers to the UE during the pre-fetch operation;
- downloading the content from the servers of the content providers to the UE over the mobile network based on the percentage of UE resources allocated to each of the content providers;
- and
- storing the content in local storage within the UE.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.