Offer inclusion for over the top (OTT) content

摘要

Inspection of over the top (OTT) content to facilitate offering non-OTT content or other content and/or services as an alternative to the OTT content is contemplated. The OTT content may be inspected at an access point configured to provide a broadband or other connection between a device consuming the OTT content and a device sourcing the content. Data packets or other signaling may be added to the OTT content at the access point in order to announce the offer.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a modem, a key from a first device; receiving, by the modem, encrypted over the top (OTT) content from an OTT source server; decrypting, by the modem, the encrypted OTT content, using the key and parsing, by the modem, matching information from the decrypted OTT content; sending, by the modem, the parsed matching information to an offer controller; receiving, by the modem, an offer from the controller, wherein the offer comprises a link; transmitting, by the modem, the offer with the decrypted OTT content to the first device; and receiving, by the modem, a request from the device and directing, by the modem, based on the request, the first device to non-OTT content using the link.