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Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 19, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventor:

Brad L. Brech, Rochester, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/167 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/028 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 15/167 (2013.01); G06F 17/30902 (2013.01); H04L 67/2847 (2013.01);
Abstract

Pre-caching may decrease the response time necessary for a wireless communication network to fulfill a user request. Pre-caching includes predicting what data the user will request next and preemptively fetching that data from a network (e.g., the Internet). Additionally, the wireless communication network may predict the geographic location of the mobile device when it makes the request. Instead of pre-caching the data in the memory of the mobile device, the data may be stored at a wireless access point that has a radiation pattern that covers the predicted geographic location of the mobile device. Once the wireless access point receives the request from the mobile device for the pre-cached data, the pre-cached data may be transmitted wirelessly to the mobile device, thereby avoiding having to forward the request to rest of the communication network.


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