| 摘要 |
A method for communicating in real-time to users of a provider of Internet access service, without requiring any installation or set-up by the user, that utilizes the unique identification information automatically provided by the user during communications for identifying the user to provide a fixed identifier which is then communicated to a redirecting device. Messages may then be selectively transmitted to the user. The system is normally transparent to the user, with no modification of its content along the path. Content then may be modified or replaced along the path to the user. For the purposes of establishing a reliable delivery of bulletin messages from providers to their users, the system forces the delivery of specially-composed World Wide Web browser pages to the user, although it is not limited to that type of data. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method, comprising:
accessing, by a redirecting device, user upstream traffic from a destination site requested by at least one user; providing, by the redirecting device, a fixed identifier to a consolidating and management device, the fixed identifier based on the accessed user upstream traffic; sending, by the consolidating and management device to the redirecting device, policy information with a unique identifier for the policy information; creating, by the redirecting device, an entry in a table stored in the redirecting device, the entry indicating an Internet Protocol (IP) address of packet data obtained from the user upstream traffic, the entry having a predefined time expiration period during which the redirecting device will not query the consolidating and management device; and redirecting a message, based on the accessed user upstream traffic, to the user for display on a message vehicle occurring directly from the redirecting device to the user without involvement from the destination site. |
