Alcatel Lucent

Alcatel

Philippe Laine

Shahid Akhtar

Philippe R Sehier

Siegfried Loeffler

Systems and methods are disclosed for pre-fetching assets from content providers to user equipment (UE). In one embodiment, the UE initiates a pre-fetch operation to download assets from content providers in advance of an end user requesting the assets. The UE accesses a resource profile for the pre-fetch operation that indicates the content providers that have assets for the UE to download in advance for local storage on the UE, and defines a percentage of UE resources allocated to each of the content providers for downloading the assets during the pre-fetch operation. The UE may then download the assets from the content providers based on the resource profile, and store the assets in a local memory.

Pre-fetching of assets to user equipment

A device is dedicated to controlling access to wireless communications local area networks having a local coverage area included in a main coverage area of a main communications network equipped with mobile communications device positioning means. The device having management means connected to the positioning means and adapted i) to compare the positions of at least some of the mobile devices to those of the local areas, in order to select the primary identifiers of the mobile devices substantially positioned in said local areas, and ii) to send a messaging server of the main network instructions including the primary identifier of each mobile device selected, in order for it to send them a message telling their users that they can connect to the local area network in whose local area they are placed.

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Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

Philippe Laine