| 摘要 |
A system and method for caching and pre-fetching content is disclosed. This invention relates to mobile devices and, more particularly but not exclusively, to delivering content to a mobile device. Existing systems employ different mechanisms for delivering content such as multimedia and the like to users of mobile device. Mechanisms such as broadcast services, delivery from the interne, Wi-Fi hotspots, Bluetooth kiosks etc face problems of offering innovative services to users due to insufficient network capacity, high end costs to consumers. The disclosed system delivers contents such as multimedia, data and the like by pre-fetching and caching techniques. The contents preferred by a user is identified and pre-fetched to access points located in vicinity of the user. The user can access the contents from the access points via a short range communication means such as Bluetooth, Infrared and so on. |
