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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2016
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Jim Zhao, Los Altos, CA (US);
Guo Qiang Wang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A method includes requesting, by a first wireless intelligent content acceleration (WICA) unit, content from a provider and receiving, by the first WICA unit, a first transmission over a backhaul link, the first transmission being based on the request. The method also includes determining whether the first transmission includes a signature without a first block of data or the signature and the first block of data. Additionally, the method includes, upon determining that the first transmission includes the signature without the first block of data, retrieving the first block of data from a content cache in accordance with the signature, and, upon determining that the first transmission includes the signature and the first block of data, saving the signature and the first block of data in the content cache. Also, the method includes processing the first block of data.