In this paper, we propose a proxy caching policy using both prefetching and patching technique for the efficient continuous
media stream service on the network. In the proposed proxy caching policy, caching is done in two phases that in the first
phase, the prefix of the requested object is cached when the requested object is not cached at all; this is done to reduce
initial latency for future streams for that object. In the second phase, that object is cached stepwise based on the interval
between the current and preceding streams for that object if the prefix of that object has already cached. Our experimental
results show that our proposed proxy caching policy works better than existing ones in terms of network channel and read ahead
buffer usage.