Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Lawrence Gensch

James V Luciani

Prasandh Balakrishnan

Richard G D'Addio

Ittehad Shaikh

Ravi S Aysola

Terence Lobo

A content delivery network (CDN) is enhanced to enable mobile network operators (MNOs) to provide their mobile device users with a content prediction and pre-fetching service. Preferably, the CDN enables the service by providing infrastructure support comprising a client application, and a distributed predictive pre-fetching function. The client application executes in the user's mobile device and enables the device user to subscribe to content (e.g., video) from different websites, and to input viewing preferences for such content (e.g.: 'Sports: MLB: Boston Red Sox'). This user subscription and preference information is sent to the predictive pre-fetching support function that is preferably implemented within or across CDN server clusters. A preferred implementation uses a centralized back-end infrastructure, together with front-end servers positioned in association with the edge server regions located nearby the mobile core network. The predictive pre-fetch service operates on the user's behalf in accordance with the user preference information.

Managing mobile device user subscription and service preferences to predictively pre-fetch content

Distributed server architecture for supporting a predictive content pre-fetching service for mobile device users

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Lawrence Gensch