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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
May. 21, 2010
Antonio Nucci, San Jose, CA (US);
Supranamaya Ranjan, Albany, CA (US);
Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Evanston, CA (US);
Ionut Trestian, Evanston, CA (US);
Antonio Nucci, San Jose, CA (US);
Supranamaya Ranjan, Albany, CA (US);
Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Evanston, CA (US);
Ionut Trestian, Evanston, CA (US);
Narus, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for content transmission in a cellular network having a collection of cellular zones. The method includes obtaining a statistical trace associated with the cellular network, comprising attributes of historical content chunks received from prior users of the cellular network and trajectories of the prior users moving within the cellular zones, analyzing the statistical trace to identify a portion of the cellular zones as drop zones, allocating drop zone transmission bandwidth to the drop zones based on a pre-determined criterion, receiving, subsequent to the allocating, a transmission request for a content chunk from a mobile device of a user outside the drop zones, delaying transmission of the content chunk while the mobile device remains outside of the drop zones, and transmitting the content chunk in response to detecting the mobile device within the drop zones.