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US 8,265,073 B2Granted
Method and system which enables subscribers to select videos from websites for on-demand delivery to subscriber televisions via a television network
AssigneeComcast Cable Holdings, LLC
InventorJohn Jason Brzozowski
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Abstract
Provisioning of network element with a provisioning element having a number of provisioning servers. Each provisioning server being active to support its own provisioning and to actively backup the provisioning of the provisioning servers such that operations of the provisioning servers is maximized while providing redundancy in the event that one of the other provisioning servers is lost or disabled.
Claims23
A provisioning method, comprising:
- persistently issuing provisioning instructions from at least one of a number of provisioning servers configured to receive a provisioning request for a network element;
- and
- persistently reissuing the provisioning instructions from one or more different provisioning severs in response to one or more subsequent provisioning requests being received by the one or more different provisioning servers such that the network element is persistently reissued the provisioning instructions simultaneously from different provisioning servers,
- wherein the provisioning instructions include a network address for the network element such that the same network address is issued with each reissuing of the provisioning instructions.
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A system for network services comprising:
- a plurality of servers, each of the servers being in communication with a communication network and active;
- and
- wherein the plurality of servers are bound to a channel over which each of the plurality of servers can communicate with at least one network element;
- wherein the plurality of servers are configured to persistently reissue provisioning instructions to the at least one network element in response to receiving a message from the network element such that the network element is persistently reissued the provisioning instructions simultaneously from different provisioning servers;
- and
- wherein each provisioning instruction includes a network address for the network element within the provisioning instructions such that the same network address is issued with each reissuing of the provisioning instructions.
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A system comprising:
- a provisioning element comprising multiple provisioning servers, wherein each of the provisioning servers is concurrently active;
- and
- a relay agent in communication with the provisioning element via a common channel to which the relay agent and each provisioning server is bound, wherein the relay agent is further in communication with a plurality of network elements to be provisioned by the provisioning element, and wherein the relay agent is configured to communicate with the provisioning servers using multicast communications, and the relay agent is configured to communicate with each network element using unicast communications,
- wherein upon receiving a provisioning request from a first network element, at least two of the multiple provisioning servers are configured to simultaneously provide redundant provisioning data to the first network element, and
- wherein said provisioning data includes a network address for the network element within the provisioning instructions such that the same network address is issued with each reissuing of the provisioning instructions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.