Content Capability Clearing House for QoS Brokerage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content distribution architectures fail to ensure quality of service (QoS) and content screening across multiple network providers, leading to complex and costly negotiations, and lack a centralized solution for facilitating access to diverse content over the Internet.
Innovation Solution
A content capability clearing house acts as a neutral mediator among network providers to manage rich content capabilities, including QoS and content screening, by receiving and transmitting requests, using a policy decision module, network and subscriber profile databases, and transaction identification, to efficiently broker and manage content capabilities across multiple networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If content distribution uses peer-to-peer networking without centralized mediation, then network complexity is reduced, but quality of service cannot be ensured across multiple network providers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a content capability clearing house as an intermediary entity that mediates between content providers and network providers. This clearing house maintains capability information databases and facilitates negotiations to establish QoS agreements, thereby ensuring reliable content distribution across multiple network providers without requiring direct complex peer-to-peer negotiations between all parties.
2Adaptability or versatility
If content capability negotiations are conducted bilaterally between network providers, then service quality can be customized, but administrative complexity and costs increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The clearing house acts as a centralized intermediary that maintains capability information databases and facilitates QoS negotiations between content providers and network providers. This eliminates the need for complex bilateral negotiations between all network providers while still allowing customized service quality agreements to be established through the clearing house's coordinated process.
Solution Approach 2:
The clearing house provides a universal platform that handles multiple functions including maintaining capability databases, facilitating negotiations, and managing QoS agreements across all network providers. This multi-functional approach consolidates administrative complexity into a single entity rather than distributing it across multiple bilateral relationships.
3Speed
If pre-arranged content is harvested and stored on distributed servers, then content access speed is improved, but the ability to access diverse content over the Internet is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The clearing house serves as an intermediary that coordinates between content providers who maintain their content and network providers who deliver it. This allows content to be cached and delivered efficiently through the network infrastructure while still maintaining access to diverse content from multiple providers, as the clearing house manages the coordination without requiring centralized content storage.
Data Source
AI summary
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.