Network autodiscovery as a lever to decorrelated service activation through event driven architecture

摘要

An autodiscovery system provides content credentials to customer premise equipment through an event-driven architecture. The autodiscovery system includes several modules for implementing the event-driven architecture, such as an autodiscovery front-end module, an autodiscovery back-end module, and a broadcast activation module. The autodiscovery system may also include a subscriber database that stores subscriber records that identify subscribers associated with a level of service, a customer premise equipment identifier, or both. The modules of the autodiscovery system may also communicate with a conditional access system that communicates the content credentials to a data carousel. When the content credentials are made available on the data carousel, the autodiscovery front-end module may notify the customer premise equipment that the content credentials are ready for retrieval from the data carousel.

主权项

1. An autodiscovery method for providing content credentials to a customer premise equipment, comprising:
receiving, by an autodiscovery front-end module, a network notification from a customer premise equipment that notifies a telecommunication service provider that the customer premise equipment is ready to receive service from the telecommunication service provider, wherein the network notification includes a customer premise equipment identifier that identifies the customer premise equipment, wherein at a time of receipt of the network notification, the customer premise equipment identifier has yet to be verified by the telecommunication service provider; extracting the unverified customer premise equipment identifier from the network notification; in response to receiving the network notification, generating, by an autodiscovery back-end module, an autodiscovery event that identifies that the customer premise equipment is not receiving service from the telecommunication service provider; receiving, by an event receiver module, the autodiscovery event; in response to the autodiscovery event, generating, by a command sending module, a request for content credentials issuable by a conditional access system, wherein the content credentials identify network content receivable by the customer premise equipment from the telecommunication service provider; and notifying, by the autodiscovery front-end module, the customer premise equipment that the content credentials are available from the conditional access system.