Predictive precaching of data based on context

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9058324-B2
Application number	US-201213631565-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 28, 2012
Priority date	Sep 28, 2012
Publication date	Jun 16, 2015
Grant date	Jun 16, 2015

Abstract

A device and method for predictively precaching content on a mobile communication device includes monitoring numerous data sources for contextual data on the activities of the user. The mobile communication device predicts network connectivity outages and affected applications using the contextual data. The mobile communication device notifies the affected applications of the predicted network connectivity outage, and in response the affected applications precache suitable content. The affected applications may employ several precaching strategies in response to the notification, such as downloading content from a remote content server, adjusting content streaming, or adjusting content buffering prior to the predicted network connectivity outage. During the network outage, application service is provided using the precached content. Such precaching may also be accomplished using a local caching proxy server.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A mobile communication device to predictively precache data, the mobile communication device comprising:
a contextual engine to monitor contextual data of a user of the mobile communication device; and
a prediction engine to:
predict a network connectivity outage associated with a computer network using the contextual data;
predict an application affected by the network connectivity outage using the contextual data, wherein the application compris…

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Kohlenberg Tobias M
• Wouhaybi Rita H
• Mo Stanley
• Mian Mubashir A

Classifications

• G06F11/004 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/30 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/008

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30902

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L29/08

  Electricity · mapped topic