Patent ID: 9451217
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: G08B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing video surveillance, said method comprising: providing digital television services to a customer via middleware, the middleware including digital rights management services; providing digital surveillance services to the customer via the middleware; and in providing digital surveillance services to the customer, enabling the customer to access surveillance signals via a set-top box, from a remote location, using a telecommunications device, the telecommunications device being authorized to access the surveillance signals by the digital rights management services; authorizing the set-top box to receive the surveillance signals; sending, in response to authorizing the set-top box, via the middleware, a set-top box digital rights management key to the set-top box; providing, in response to authorizing the set-top box, the surveillance signals from surveillance equipment to the set-top box, the surveillance signals being encoded and accessible with the set-top box digital rights management key; establishing, via the middleware, the telecommunications device as an authorized device to access the surveillance signals based on a telephone number associated with the telecommunications device; sending, in response to authorizing the telephone number, via the middleware, a wireless phone digital rights management key to the telecommunications device associated with the telephone number; receiving, at the middleware, a request for the surveillance signals from the telecommunications device; receiving, at the set-top box, a request for encoded surveillance signals from the middleware; encoding, with the set-top box, in response to receiving the request, the surveillance signals to generate the encoded surveillance signals; and providing the encoded surveillance signals from the set-top box to the telecommunications device, wherein the encoded surveillance signals are encoded to be viewable by the telecommunications device and accessible with the wireless phone digital rights management key.