Patent ID: 8006275
Filing Date: 2011-08-23
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A recovery method for a video service provided through a broadband network, comprising: monitoring, exclusively by at least one device at a customer premises, a condition relating to power at the customer premises to automatically detect an unexpected power outage at the customer premises, the unexpected power outage causing an interruption in the video service within the customer premises; sending notice of the interruption through the network to a node having a video recorder in the network; the sending of the notice of the interruption is initiated by the at least one device at the customer premises in response to the detected unexpected power outage; recording, at the video recorder in the network and during the interruption caused by the unexpected power outage at the customer premises, a video program that was being viewed in the customer premises prior to the interruption, at least from a point in the video program substantially corresponding to a point when the interruption occurred; and after communication through the network with the customer premises is resumed after an end of the interruption, transmitting at least a portion of the recorded video program starting from the point substantially corresponding to the identified point when the interruption occurred, from the video recorder through the network to a video device within the customer premises, for presentation to a viewer.