Patent ID: 11962592
Assignee: TIVO CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A system, comprising:
circuitry configured to:
provide, with a first computer associated with an Internet service provider, a user interface for a content provider to select content to offer subscribers and to enter terms of subscriber offers,
wherein the user interface is configured for a verifying process comprising:
determining parameters for minimum performance and a partial subsidy or a full subsidy;
verifying, based on the determining the parameters for minimum performance and the partial subsidy or the full subsidy, whether a subscriber's access is capable of being provisioned for a requested third party service;
in response to determining the subscriber's access is capable of being provisioned for the requested third party service, sending a notice to the subscriber that the requested third party service can be provided; and
in response to determining the subscriber's access is not capable of being provisioned for the requested third party service, sending a notice to the subscriber that the requested third party service cannot be provided, and

wherein the terms of subscriber offers comprises one set of terms providing that, in exchange for one of the partial subsidy or the full subsidy, provided to qathe subscriber by the content provider, for Internet services for the subscriber, the subscriber agrees to be subject to restricted Internet service access to content associated with competitors of the content provider, the restricted Internet access being implemented by the Internet service provider;

generate, with the first computer, based on the selection from the content provider of content to offer subscribers and terms of subscriber offers, an access control list to be associated with the subscriber or with a device of the subscriber;
enable, by the first computer, the content provider to provide updated access control lists associated with the subscriber or with a device of the subscriber; and
configure, with the first computer, one or more second computers to control delivery of the content, based at least in part on selection from the content provider of content to offer subscribers and terms of subscriber offers.