CPC H04L 43/04 (2013.01) [H04L 67/303 (2013.01); H04L 67/535 (2022.05); H04N 21/44224 (2020.08); H04N 21/4622 (2013.01); H04N 21/4667 (2013.01); H04N 21/4668 (2013.01); H04N 21/4826 (2013.01); H04N 21/43615 (2013.01)] |
AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT: |
Claims 1-8 are cancelled. |
monitoring data traffic at a gateway coupling between first and second data networks, said first data network comprising a plurality of devices for accessing content, said devices having an input receiving user selection of contents and said second network comprising a plurality of content servers to deliver a plurality of contents, said monitoring comprising collecting control data and associating time stamps to the collected data, said control data defining where and how to obtain the content;
analyzing said data traffic to identify a group of contents that are more-frequently-accessed by the plurality of devices, wherein data are collected and time-stamped and correlated in accordance with time of day and day of week at which each one of the content servers was accessed by a user to determine an access pattern for each of said more-frequently-accessed contents, wherein collected time-stamped data are inferred from previous user selections;
pre-fetching the more-frequently-accessed contents according to their control data and collected time-stamped data;
storing the pre-fetched contents; and
delivering the stored more-frequently-accessed contents to at least one of the plurality of devices for accessing to content, and
periodically updating the stored pre-fetched content, wherein the updating is performed according to the collected time-stamped data of the stored pro-fetched content and comprises pre-fetching the more-frequently-accessed contents according to their control data and storing said pre-fetched contents so that said pre-fetched content is updated timely and is delivered to at least one of the plurality of devices for accessing content before a further selection by the user.
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