METHODS CIRCUITS DEVICES SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED MACHINE EXECUTABLE CODE FOR EFFICIENT DELIVERY OF MULTI-UNICAST COMMUNICATION TRAFFIC

摘要

Disclosed are systems and methods for the delivery of multi-unicast communication traffic. A multimedia router is adapted to analyze and identify contents which it handles and one or more access nodes are adapted to receive one or more of the identified contents, cache contents based on said identification; and use cached contents as substitutes for redundant traffic, received by the same access node.

主权项

1. A method of delivering content to a mobile communication device communicatively coupled to an access node of a mobile communication network, said method comprising:
detecting that at least a portion of content requested by the mobile communication device from a content sources external to the mobile communication network has been previously cached by a cache of the communication network; halting transmission of at least a portion of the previously cached content from an external gateway of the network to the access node used by the mobile communication device; and generating a content stream addressed to the mobile communication device using the cached content.