DATA SERVICES USING LOCATION PATTERNS AND INTELLIGENT CACHING

摘要

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.

主权项

1. A method of caching data in a communication network, comprising:
predicting a future request from a computing device to access data using the communication network; determining a location pattern for the computing device, the location pattern comprising a previous physical location of the computing device; predicting a future physical location of the computing device based on the location pattern; and before the future request is sent by the computing device, 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.