User control over content delivery

摘要

Novel tools and techniques for Internet service providers to enable enhanced user control over content delivery. In an aspect of certain embodiments, these tools can allow the customer to select, on a variety of different bases, whether content should be obtained from the Internet or from a lower-cost source, such as a metropolitan content delivery network (“CDN”) operated by the ISP or a private peering connection with a content source. Both of these options can, for example, avoid accessing content over the Internet and thus can reduce ISP delivery costs. In some embodiments, these cost reductions can be passed to the consumer in the way the ISP accounts for the content delivery.

主权项

1. In a relationship between an Internet service provider (“ISP”) and a subscriber, a system for delivering content, the system comprising:
a computer system in a customer service point computer in a residential gateway that provides connectivity between the subscriber and a network of the ISP, comprising: one or more processors; and a computer readable medium in communication with the one or more processors, the computer readable medium having encoded thereon a set of instructions executable by the computer system to provide a user interface for the subscriber to select whether a set of content should be obtained through an Internet drain of the ISP or from a content delivery network (“CDN”) associated with the ISP;
provide a content provider portal for a content provider to specify whether redirection is allowed for content from that provider;update one or more routing records within an ISP network to correspond with the subscriber's selection, based on content provider specification that redirection is allowed for the set of content, so that requests from the subscriber for the set of content are routed in accordance with the updated one or more routing records; andprovide the set of content to one or more customer devices of the subscriber.