System and method for providing an adjunct device in a content distribution network
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsRobert J. Sayko, Gregory J. Smith
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Abstract
A cache server receives content and an instruction indicating an event associated with the content that causes a processor to invoke a call out to an adjunct device. The instruction further indicates an operation that the adjunct device is to perform. The cache server detects the event associated with the content, halts a flow of the content in response to detecting the event associated with the content, passes via the call out the content to the adjunct device to perform the operation, receives from the adjunct device a response and resulting data from the operation, and performs an additional operation on the resulting data based on the response from the adjunct device.
Claims20
A device, comprising:
- a memory that stores instructions;
- a processor that executes the instructions to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- detecting an event associated with content;
- and
- providing, via a call out indicated by the event associated with the content, the content to a first adjunct device so that the first adjunct device performs an action at a position in a flow of the content where the flow of the content has been halted.
A method, comprising:
- detecting, by utilizing instructions from a memory that are executed by a processor, an event associated with content;
- and
- transmitting, via a call out indicated by the event associated with the content, the content to a first adjunct device so that the first adjunct device performs an action at a position in a flow of the content where the flow of the content has been halted.
A computer-readable device comprising instructions, which, when loaded and executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- detecting an event associated with content;
- and
- providing, via a call out indicated by the event associated with the content, the content to a first adjunct device so that the first adjunct device performs an action at a position in a flow of the content where the flow of the content has been halted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.