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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2012
Abbas Bagasra, Concord, MA (US);
Abbas Bagasra, Concord, MA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A network device receives notification configuration information that includes a time interval criteria and a selected geographical area for providing power outage notifications. The network device receives, during a particular time interval, a loss-of-power alarm from a network interface device (NID) associated with a customer premises. The loss-of-power alarm includes a particular NID identifier. The network device retrieves, from a database, customer configuration information that associates the particular NID identifier with a particular address and identifies a power outage in a particular region associated with the particular address. The identifying is based on receiving the loss-of-power alarm and determining if other loss-of-power alarms have been received from other NIDs in the same region and within the particular time interval.