UTILIZING A GATEWAY FOR BROKERING AND/OR ARBITRATING SERVICE CONSUMPTION OPTIONS

摘要

A broadband gateway may provision services requested in a home network managed and/or serviced by the broadband gateway by a user associated with the broadband gateway, based on determination of criteria related to the requested service. The requested service may comprise obtaining and/or delivering content for consumption by one or more of a plurality of devices serviced by the broadband gateway in the home network. The criteria may comprise device related data, user preference related information, service performance related parameters, payment related information, and/or energy use related information. The broadband gateway may store information associated with the determined criteria. Provisioning requested services may comprise negotiating with at least one remote resource that may support at least a portion of the requested service. The negotiation may comprise brokering and/or arbitrating a plurality of options of remote resources utilized for providing the at least a portion of the requested service.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving a request for a service at a broadband gateway, wherein the service comprises providing content; searching by the broadband gateway for a plurality of providers of the content; and receiving the content from a selected provider of the providers of the service, wherein the selected provider is chosen by the broadband gateway in response to user criteria comprising a quality of service preference.