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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2010
Alessandro M. Meynardi, Macungie, PA (US);
Jean F. Dubois, Boothbay Harbor, ME (US);
Martin Doehring, Northborough, MA (US);
C. P. Cheng, Lexington, MA (US);
Alessandro M. Meynardi, Macungie, PA (US);
Jean F. Dubois, Boothbay Harbor, ME (US);
Martin Doehring, Northborough, MA (US);
C. P. Cheng, Lexington, MA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Power outages and restorations at customer premises can be automatically detected and reported. A method includes receiving, from a network terminal, a first notification associated with a power outage; retrieving location information associated with the network terminal; sending a second notification indicating that the outage has occurred and that includes the location information associated with the network terminal; retrieving prior outage information that corresponds to a set of network terminals associated with a group of set top boxes; determining that an outage event is triggered, when a quantity of outages is greater than a threshold, where the quantity of outages is based on the outage and other outages obtained from the prior outage information; and sending a third notification based on the determination that the outage event is triggered, where the third notification includes information associated with the quantity of outages that enables a server to remedy the outage event.