Advice of charge in content centric networks

A network device to implement a method for executing advice of charge (AoC) enforcement, the network device implementing a content centric networking (CCN) gateway, where the CCN gateway is part of a CCN network, the network device comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein an AoC enforcement module;
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• a processor coupled to the non-transitory computer-readable medium, the processor configured to execute the AoC enforcement module, the AoC enforcement module configured to receive a CCN interest packet from a user equipment in a network external to the CCN network, the CCN interest packet including a CCN name, to look up a prefix of the CCN name in an AoC table, in response to determining a match between the prefix of the CCN name and an entry in the AoC table, to generate an AoC request and to forward the AoC request toward an AoC server identified by the entry in the AoC table determined to be the match with the prefix of the CCN name, and in response to not determining the match between the prefix of the CCN name and the entry in the AoC table or in response to receiving a purchase accepted response from the AoC server, to retrieve a CCN object identified by the CCN name and to forward the CCN object to the user equipment in the network external to the CCN network from which the CCN interest packet was received.

A computing device to implement a method for executing advice of charge (AoC) purchase functions, wherein the computing device implements an AoC server in a content centric networking (CCN) network, the computing device comprising:

• a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having stored therein an AoC purchase function module;
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• a processor communicatively coupled to the non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, the processor configured to execute the AoC purchase function module, the AoC purchase function module configured to receive an AoC request from an AoC CCN gateway in the CCN network, where the AoC request includes a name of a CCN object and a unique user identifier, to generate an AoC purchase request and to send the AoC purchase request to a user equipment associated with the unique user identifier, and to generate a purchase accepted response to be sent to the AoC CCN gateway, in response to receiving a purchase approval from the user equipment.