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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2014
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Nageswara Raju Dachiraju, Irving, TX (US);
Jesus Martinez, Coppell, TX (US);
Anil K. Guntupalli, Irving, TX (US);
Viswas Ventrapragada, Coppell, TX (US);
Pritam Bedse, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Kanagaraj Vengidasamy, Tampa, FL (US);
Mukunda Raju, Irving, TX (US);
Bhanu Rongali, Hyderabad, IN;
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
One or more devices may receive activity logs from multiple set-top-boxes (STBs); determine that an outage has occurred based on the activity logs; identify one or more STBs, of the plurality of STBs, that failed to play back paid content during the outage, or where playback of paid content, by the one or more STBs, was interrupted during the outage; and credit corresponding accounts associated with the one or more STBs.