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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2013
General Instrument Corporation, Horsham, PA (US);
Robert E. Mack, Collegeville, PA (US);
Niranjan R. Samant, Lansdale, PA (US);
Lawrence D. Vince, Lansdale, PA (US);
ARRIS Technology, Inc., Suwanee, GA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for blackout management in media distribution systems may include a central data center in a service provider's domain. The central data server may coordinate with a blackout manager that implements control features for blackout. In contrast to (or to supplement) blackout control solutions that require integrated receiver decoders (IRD)s to be physically installed at each of the regional headends in the service provider network, the blackout manager may provide three functions: 1) a Virtual IRD (VIRD) function 2) access control functions via access control component, and 3) VIRD-to-EndPoint mapping function in the linkage manager.