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US 2010/0146534 A1Published application
System and Method to Authenticate a Set-Top Box Device
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsWenge Chen, Christopher J. Chase, Kuo-Hui Liu
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Abstract
A method includes receiving, at a residential gateway, an authentication request from a set-top box device. The method includes accessing authentication data stored at a memory of the residential gateway. The authentication data is associated with the set-top box device. The method also includes authenticating the set-top box device at the residential gateway based at least partially on the authentication data.
Claims25
A computer-readable storage medium comprising operational instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- receive, at a residential gateway, an authentication request from a set-top box device;
- access authentication data stored at a memory of the residential gateway, the authentication data associated with the set-top box device;
- and
- authenticate the set-top box device at the residential gateway based at least partially on the authentication data.
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A system comprising:
- a service provisioning system to send authentication data to a residential gateway, the authentication data to be stored at the residential gateway to enable the residential gateway to authenticate one or more set-top box devices associated with the residential gateway;
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- wherein authenticating the one or more set-top box devices enables the one or more set-top box devices to access a service provider network via the residential gateway.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, at a residential gateway, an authentication request from a set-top box device to authenticate the set-top box device to access a service provider network via the residential gateway;
- accessing data records stored at a memory of the residential gateway;
- determining that at least one of the data records includes authentication data associated with the set-top box device;
- determining, at the residential gateway, whether the set-top box device has an authenticated status based at least partially on the authentication data;
- and
- enabling the set-top box device to access the service provider network when the set-top box device has the authenticated status.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.