Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Shailan Lala

Jianxiu Hao

Michael R Oliver

Pramod Kalyanasundaram

Thomas B Edgar

Kalanithi Srinivasan

A device may monitor a status of a first data center of a group of data centers. The device may determine, based on the status of the first data center, to cause a failover from the first data center to a second data center. The device may cause a domain name server (DNS) configuration, associated with an external DNS, to be and a set of DNS entries, associated with an internal DNS, to be altered to cause a portion of the network traffic, respectively associated with a first network and a second network of the plurality of networks, to be routed the second data center. The device may cause a load balancer configuration to be altered to cause a portion of the network traffic associated with a third network of the plurality of networks to be redirected from the first data center to the second data center.

Automated multi-network failover for data centers

An exemplary method includes virtual set-top box ('STB') device system receiving a registration request to register a mobile computing device to operate as a virtual STB device, verifying that the mobile computing device is within a predefined vicinity of a dedicated STB device that is located at a user premises, providing, to the mobile computing device, a virtual STB key for use by the mobile computing device to operate as the virtual STB device by leveraging access rights of an end-user account of a media content distribution service to access the media content distributed by way of the media content distribution service, and facilitating sharing of the virtual STB key with a media content processing device for use by the media content processing device to access the media content distributed by way of the media content distribution service. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.

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