Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Abhishek Gupta

Jack Jianxiu Hao

Fenglin Yin

Raul I Aldrey

Guillermo Ortiz

Diego Sebastian Rozensztejn

Okeno R Palmer

Laxmi Patel

Sudeep Dasgupta

Anil Solleti

Enrique Ruiz Velasco Fonseca

Pericharla Anjaneya

An approach is provided for remotely controlling set-top boxes. A command is received from a computing device for controlling a plurality of set-top boxes. The set-top boxes are configured according to the received command.

Method and apparatus for remote set-top box management

This disclosure details the implementation of methods, systems and computer program products for remote digital video recorder (DVR) interface provisioning (hereinafter, 'DIP'). DIP systems allow for authentication, validation, and registration of users and/or user devices as well as management of identifiers associated with those users and devices. Through interaction with DIP systems, users may associate different devices with each other and/or with one or more underlying service systems and/or accounts to allow integrated use of multiple devices in association with those services. In one implementation, DIP systems may be employed to register one or more mobile and/or remote devices (e.g., mobile phones) with DVR systems to allow for remote manipulation of video recording schedules, content management, parental control management, and/or the like DVR features. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: providing a provisioning interface for display to a user, the provisioning interface including an interface element configured to receive a mobile device identifier; receiving a mobile device identifier input to the provisioning interface; receiving a local media receiver device identifier; querying a service account based on the local media receiver device identifier; retrieving a service account activation code based on the query; and storing the mobile device identifier in association with the activation code in a database.

Methods, systems and computer program products for remote DVR interface provisioning

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Dallas, TX, United States of America

Abhishek Gupta