Patent ID: 11869339
Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a router computing device from a server computing device, a first Emergency Alert System (EAS) notification comprising an EAS media file manifest Universal Resource Locator (URL) of an EAS media file, wherein the EAS media file manifest URL indicates a location of an EAS media file manifest, the router computing device being configured to route requests from a client computing device to a content server that is configured to stream content;
responsive to receiving the first EAS notification:
intercepting, by the router computing device from the client computing device that is communicatively coupled to the router computing device, a first Internet Protocol (IP) streaming content request that is directed to the content server, wherein intercepting the first IP streaming content request comprises:
receiving the first IP streaming content request via a communications network; and
preventing the first IP streaming content request from being passed on via a communications network to the content server; and
transmitting, by the router computing device to the client computing device, a first redirection response message comprising the EAS media file manifest URL;

determining, by the routing computing device, that playback of the EAS media file by the client computing device has ended; and
responsive to determining that the playback of the EAS media file by the client computing device has ended, transmitting, by the routing computing device, a completion message to the server computing device, the completion message comprising an identifier of the client computing device and a completion indication representing whether the client computing device viewed the entirety of the EAS media file.