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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 11, 2019
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);

Inventors:

Jin Yang, Orinda, CA (US);

Sagiv Draznin, Walnut Creek, CA (US);

Matthew W. Nelson, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Shahryar Ghandeharizadeh, Bridgewater, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 88/18 (2009.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/605 (2013.01); H04L 67/2847 (2013.01); H04W 4/027 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01); H04W 88/184 (2013.01);
Abstract

A Multi-access Edge Computing ('MEC') controller may predict locations for a tracked UE at different future times, and may also predict content that the tracked UE may request at the different future times. The predictions may be based on MEC controller computing probabilities for the tracked UE being at the different locations at the different future times, and/or probabilities for the content that the tracked UE is likely to request at the different locations and/or future times. The MEC controller may identify a MEC device that provides extremely low latency service and/or optimally serves a network area that includes a predicted location. The MEC controller may issue a prefetch message to the MEC device that causes the MEC device to prefetch predicted content that the tracked UE is likely to request at the future time the tracked UE is likely to reach the predicted location.


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