System and method for managing services on an internet protocol television system
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorQudsia Jaffery
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Abstract
A service management system for an IPTV network includes a comparison module that provides a list of differences between a channel map and a change manifest, an optimizer module that receives the list and provides another IPTV channel map based on the differences, and a storage module that provides the first IPTV channel map to the comparison module and stores the second list and the second IPTV channel map. A method includes comparing a channel map with a change manifest in a comparison module, providing a list of differences between the channel map and the change manifest, evaluating the list to provide another list of services and another channel map, and storing the second list and the second channel map.
Claims20
A service management server, comprising:
- a memory to store computer instructions;
- and
- a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor, responsive to executing the computer instructions, performs operations comprising:
- comparing a first internet protocol television channel map and a change manifest to generate a first list of differences between the first internet protocol television channel map and the change manifest, wherein the first internet protocol television channel map associates a plurality of channels of an internet protocol television system with a first plurality of services;
- determining a second plurality of services to implement the change manifest based on the first list of differences;
- modifying the first plurality of services according to the second plurality of services to generate a modified plurality of services;
- applying a plurality of rules to the first list of differences and the modified plurality of services to generate a second internet protocol television channel map, wherein the second internet protocol television channel map associates the plurality of channels with the modified plurality of services;
- and
- storing the second internet protocol television channel map.
A method, comprising:
- comparing, by a system comprising a processor, a first internet protocol television channel map and a change manifest to generate a first list of differences between the first internet protocol television channel map and the change manifest, wherein the first internet protocol television channel map is operable to associate a plurality of channels in an internet protocol television system with a first plurality of services;
- evaluating, by the system, the first list of differences to generate a second plurality of services to implement the change manifest;
- modifying, by the system, the first plurality of services according to the second plurality of services to generate a modified plurality of services;
- applying, by the system, a plurality of rules to the first list of differences and the modified plurality of services to generate a second internet protocol television channel map, wherein the second internet protocol television channel map associates the plurality of channels with the modified plurality of services;
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- storing, by the system, the second internet protocol television channel map.
A computer-readable storage device, comprising computer instructions which, responsive to being executed by a processor, cause the processor to performing operations comprising:
- comparing a first internet protocol television channel map and a change manifest to generate a first list of differences between the first internet protocol television channel map and the change manifest, wherein the first internet protocol television channel map is operable to associate a plurality of channels in an internet protocol television system with a first plurality of services;
- evaluating the first list of differences to generate a second plurality of services to implement the change manifest;
- modifying the first plurality of services according to the second plurality of services to generate a modified plurality of services;
- applying a plurality of rules to the first list of differences and the modified plurality of services to generate a second internet protocol television channel map, wherein the second internet protocol television channel map associates the plurality of channels with the modified plurality of services;
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- storing the second internet protocol television channel map.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.