Patent ID: 9641880
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by an entitlement service executed by a processing device, requests for programmers to provide media content to user devices; transmitting, by the entitlement service, the requests to a multi-channel media distributor, wherein the entitlement service accesses the multi-channel media distributor to authenticate users requesting content from the programmers or to confirm that authenticated users are authorized to receive content from the programmers; determining, by the entitlement service and based on the transmitted requests, a success rate indicating whether the multi-channel media distributor has failed to authenticate user credentials included in the requests or has failed to authorize content access based on the requests; identifying, by the entitlement service and based on the success rate, a reduced availability of the multi-channel media distributor; and providing, by the entitlement service, the user devices with temporary access to the media content from the programmers during a period in which the reduced availability occurs.