The Directv Group, Inc.

Jianming Yu

Lonnie Scott Clabaugh

Charles C Debergh

Joseph T Hayes

Subbaraya Kumar Deverakonda Venkata

Raynold M Kahn

Kapil Chaudhry

Romulo Cruz Pontual

Don E Cansino

Yeung K Chan

Gilbert Zaldivar

An T Lam

Dien Nguyen

A system and method for a system for communicating with a user device includes a broadcast management system generating content channel data signals. The system also includes a software download manager in communication with the broadcast management system. The software download manager generates an announcement file and a download resolution file. The download manager communicates the announcement file. The user device has user device identifier data and receives the download resolution file in response to the announcement file and stores the software image in the user device in response to the download resolution file.

Method and apparatus for managing software downloads in a broadcast communication system

A method and system for accessing content includes a user device and a subscription manager that generates a first identifier associated with a first content in a first format and a second identifier associated with the first content in a second format. The system also includes a conditional access system that communicates a first identifier, the second identifier and rules to the user device. The user device accesses the first content with the first format in response purchasing the first content in the first format. The user device selects the first content in the second format and accesses the first content in the second format in response to purchasing the first content in the first format and the rules.

Method and system for accessing content in another format in a communications system

A system and method for a system for communicating with a user device includes a first transport processing system and a second transport processing system. The system also includes a software download manager that monitors a first transport processing system communicating a software image, generates a first announcement for the software image, communicates the first announcement to the user device, determines a failure of the first transport processing system, discontinues the first announcement for the software image in response to the failure and communicating the software image through the second transport processing system.

Method and apparatus for monitoring a transport processing system in a software download broadcast communication system

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