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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2012
At&t Intellectual Property I, Lp, Atlanta, GA (US);
Jerald R. Howcroft, Beverly Hills, MI (US);
Benjamin Jahner, Sweetwater, TN (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set-top-box having a controller to transmit a request to a remote management server for status information associated with a x.509 certificate intended for the STB, and receive the status information associated with the x.509 certificate from the remote management server, where events associated with the status information are received by the remote management server from at least one of the STB, a certificates proxy, an external certificate web service, and a certificate authority, and where the status information comprises at least a portion of the received events. Other embodiments are disclosed.