Patent 10244016 was granted and assigned to Amazon on March, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Techniques are described for providing a local cache for media content playback. A proxy device on a local network can store fragments of media content received from a media server in a local cache. Viewer devices on the local network can request the fragments from the local cache when a bandwidth of a communication connection between the viewer devices and the media server degrades.