Content capability clearing house systems and methods

摘要

A content capability clearing house that can act as a trusted and neutral mediator among network providers to manage rich content capabilities among multiple networks is provided. Content capabilities that can be brokered include, but are not limited to, quality of service and content screening. In an embodiment, a content capability clearing house includes a receiver that receives content capability request messages and other messages from network providers. A content capability request message includes a quality of service request and/or a subscriber profile request for use with content screening and subscriber specific advertisements. The present invention includes a series of methods for determining content capabilities for data transmission over a transaction between a content provider and a subscriber in which a content capability clearing house is used to efficiently broker and manage the capability among multiple network providers.

主权项

1. A system, comprising:
a receiver configured to receive a content capability request message, wherein the content capability request message indicates that a provider of content desires to establish an end-to-end communications path for providing a content delivery session between the content provider and a subscriber at a specified quality of service, and includes a subscriber identifier that identifies the subscriber, wherein the content capability request message is received from a first network provider; and a policy decision module configured to associate a network profile with the received subscriber identifier, wherein the policy decision module determines whether a second network provider of the subscriber will support the specified quality of service based on the subscriber's network profile; wherein the system is operable to receive from the first network provider a forwarded quality of service release message that originates from the content provider and indicates that the content has been delivered from the content provider, and in response to receiving the quality of service release message, the system forwards the quality of service release message to the second network provider of the subscriber to record a completion of a transaction.