Patent ID: 7747721

Claim:
A broadband residential gateway (BRG) management system, comprising: a communications interface coupled to a plurality of broadband residential gateways (BRGs) and one or more content service providers (CSPs); a memory; and a processor, wherein the processor is programmed to: establish a content profile for each of the BRGs according to one or more attributes of the BRGs and the CSPs; receive a content access request from one or more BRGs; and supply each BRG access to selectable content from one or more of the CSPs according to the content profile, wherein the processor is programmed to: monitor content requests from BRG users at each of the BRGs; establish a content utilization profile for each of the BRGs according to the monitored requests; establish a BRG user profile for each BRG user according to the monitored requests, establish a revenue optimization profile for each of the BRGs according to the monitored requests; and dynamically adjust the content profile of each of the BRGs according to the content utilization profile, the BRG user profiles, and the revenue profile, such that the content profile of each of the BRG is updated, auction access to BRG users of at least one of the BRGs; receive consideration offers from the CSPs for said access; respond to the consideration offers according to predetermined business criteria; receive a content selection from a user of a first BRG; retrieve the selected content from a first CSP; secure the selected content; supply the first BRG access to the secured content; receive a request from the user of the first BRG to transfer rights to the secured content to a user of a second BRG; terminate access to the secured content with the first BRG of the requesting user; and supply the second BRG access to the secured content.