Delivering personalized content data via local network
First Claim
1. A method of operating a communications network comprising a remote network in communication with a local network, said method comprising:
- transmitting quality of service policy data from said remote network to said local network, said quality of service policy data providing quality of service parameters corresponding to at least one attribute for future communication of content data to a recipient wherein said at least one attribute comprises an identifier of a recipient or at least one attribute of a recipient;
operating said local network to;
(i) store said quality of service policy data at said local network;
(ii) receive from said remote network said at least one identifier of a recipient or at least one attribute of a recipient for the delivery of content data to the recipient;
(iii) using said received attribute to analyze said locally stored quality of service policy data to find quality of service parameters for said content data delivery; and
(iv) deliver said received content data to said recipient in accordance with said quality of service parameters;
wherein;
said local network further comprises a local content data store arranged to store said content data; and
said content data delivery step (iv) comprises delivering said content data from said local store over said local network with one of a plurality of classes of service selected in accordance with said quality of service parameters.
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Abstract
Personalized content is provided over a communications network such as the Internet. Providing personalized content includes both generating content which depends on the recipient of that content and delivering that content in a manner that depends on the recipient. Although methods of providing personalized content are known, none of those methods provide a mechanism for deciding when and how to personalize content. By enabling a content provided to send policy data to local caches and having a local agent computer arrange for content files to be delivered in accordance with those policy files, such a mechanism is provided.
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1. A method of operating a communications network comprising a remote network in communication with a local network, said method comprising:
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transmitting quality of service policy data from said remote network to said local network, said quality of service policy data providing quality of service parameters corresponding to at least one attribute for future communication of content data to a recipient wherein said at least one attribute comprises an identifier of a recipient or at least one attribute of a recipient; operating said local network to; (i) store said quality of service policy data at said local network; (ii) receive from said remote network said at least one identifier of a recipient or at least one attribute of a recipient for the delivery of content data to the recipient; (iii) using said received attribute to analyze said locally stored quality of service policy data to find quality of service parameters for said content data delivery; and (iv) deliver said received content data to said recipient in accordance with said quality of service parameters; wherein; said local network further comprises a local content data store arranged to store said content data; and said content data delivery step (iv) comprises delivering said content data from said local store over said local network with one of a plurality of classes of service selected in accordance with said quality of service parameters. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of operating a communications network comprising a remote network in communication with a local network, said method comprising:
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transmitting quality of service policy data from said remote network to said local network, said quality of service policy data providing quality of service adaptation parameters corresponding to at least one attribute for future communication of content data to a recipient wherein said at least one attribute comprises an identifier of a recipient or at least one attribute of a recipient; operating said local network to; (i) store said quality of service policy data at said local network; (ii) receive from said remote network said at least one identifier of a recipient or at least one attribute of a recipient for the provision of content data to the recipient; (iii) analyze said locally stored quality of service policy data to find quality of service adaptation parameters for said content data provision; and (iv) provide said content data to said recipient in accordance with said quality of service adaptation parameters; wherein said content data provision step (iv) comprises generating said content data in accordance with said at least one identifier of a recipient or at east one attribute of a recipient.
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9. A communications network comprising a remote network in communication with a local network, said network comprising:
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policy transmission means arranged in operation to transmit quality of service policy data from said remote network to said local network, said quality of service policy data providing quality of service parameters corresponding to at least one attribute for future communication of content data to a recipient wherein said at least on attribute comprises an identifier of a recipient or at least one attribute a recipient; said local network being arranged in operation to; (i) store said quality of service policy data at said local network; (ii) receive from said remote network said at least one identifier of a recipient or at least one attribute of a recipient for the delivery of content data to a recipient; (iii) using said received attribute to analyze said quality of service policy data to find quality of service parameters for said content data delivery; and (iv) deliver said content data to said recipient in accordance with said quality of service parameters; wherein; said local network further comprises a local content data store arranged to store said content data; and said local network is further arranged in operation to deliver said content data to said recipient by delivering said content data from said local store over said local network with one of a plurality of qualities of delivery selected in accordance with said parameters. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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