Patent ID: 8838735

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving a request for content at a residential gateway sent from a requesting device associated with a requesting address in a residential network, the request for content specifying the requesting address, a requested content, and a destination address of an output device in the residential network to which the requested content is delivered, wherein the output device is different from the requesting device; generating, by the residential gateway, a translated request for content that replaces the requesting address of the requesting device with a gateway network address of the residential gateway; storing an entry in a log, the log associating the request for content to the requesting device, to the output device, and to an identifier of the requested content; sending the translated request for content from the residential gateway that identifies the gateway network address associated with the residential gateway as both a requestor and a destination for the requested content; receiving the requested content at the gateway network address associated with the residential gateway; querying the log to determine the output device associated with the identifier of the requested content; querying a residential network address table to determine the destination address associated with the output device; and forwarding the requested content from the residential gateway to the destination address of the output device.