Method and apparatus for walled garden with a mobile content distribution network

Abstract

A system comprising: a plurality of mobile edge caches integrated within a corresponding plurality of mobile environments; a local network manager coupled to each edge cache device in each mobile environment to provide network connectivity to client devices within each mobile environment; a mobile high speed network interface coupled to each mobile edge cache within each mobile environment to establish a high bandwidth link to one or more fixed high speed network interfaces when the mobile environment is within range; a fixed core cache to store content titles owned by a content provider, the content titles to be distributed to the plurality of mobile edge caches, each content title comprising a plurality of title segments; wherein the content provider is to maintain a primary website to provide access to each content title by streaming apps installed on client devices, a streaming app running on a first client device within a first mobile environment to generate a request for a first content title responsive to user input, the request including a network address associated with the primary website; a request redirector to responsively redirect the request to a first mobile edge cache within the first mobile environment and/or the fixed core cache, wherein at least a portion of the title segments of the first content title are to be streamed to the streaming app from the first mobile edge cache.