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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2012
Sean S. Lee, Potomac, MD (US);
Scott D. Casavant, Germantown, MD (US);
Kuriacose Joseph, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
John L. Norin, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Sean S. Lee, Potomac, MD (US);
Scott D. Casavant, Germantown, MD (US);
Kuriacose Joseph, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
John L. Norin, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
The DIRECTV Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for determining unauthorized use of a set top box includes a terrestrial signal determination module in the set top box that receives terrestrial signals from a terrestrial source comprising terrestrial signal identifiers. A memory in the set top box stores expected terrestrial signal identifiers for a location of the user device. The user device also includes a comparison module comparing the received terrestrial signal identifier to the location-based terrestrial signal identifiers and a disable module disabling the user device from receiving satellite signals in response to comparing.