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AssigneeAt&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P.
InventorsCATHERINE WOOD, DANIEL P. MALEE, JEFFREY DICKS, MICHAEL EVERETT, SRINIDHI SUBBARAO
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A system for monitoring order fulfillment of telecommunication services is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a monitoring system having a controller element that submits a correlation ID to a service orchestration system (SOS) that manages one or more order fulfillment systems (OFSs) that collectively fulfill a select one of a plurality of telecommunication service orders according to a plurality of intermediate fulfillment steps, receives from the SOS information associated with the plurality of intermediate fulfillment steps tagged with the correlation ID, records said information according to the correlation ID, and collects correlated fulfillment activity for the plurality of telecommunication service orders from a plurality of iterations of the foregoing steps. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
A computer-readable storage medium in a Set-Top Box (STB), comprising computer instructions for:
A Service Startup System (SSS), comprising a controller element that receives from a Set-Top Box (STB) an identifier of a residential gateway (RG), and a certificate associated with the STB for authenticating the STB and for provisioning the STB to receive media services.
A service orchestration system (SOS), comprising a controller element that receives from a computing device a request for provisioning information for a Set-Top Box (STB) according to an identifier of a Residential Gateway (RG) and a certificate identifying the STB, and submits said provisioning information to the computing device for provisioning said STB to enable presentation of media services.
A media device, comprising a controller element that receives media services from a Set-Top Box (STB) enabled to deliver said media services upon being authenticated and provisioned according to a certificate that identifies the STB and an identifier of a Residential Gateway (RG).
An authentication system, comprising a controller element that authenticates a Set-Top Box (STB) according to a certificate that identifies the STB and an identifier of a Residential Gateway (RG), each of the identifier and the certificate supplied by the STB.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.