Patent ID: 8245263
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing a computer program comprising instructions that when executed by a computer configure blackout event data for a blackout event in a data distribution system, the computer program comprising: instructions to configure at the data distribution system, blackout event data indicating at least one event criterion data for selecting client devices subject to the blackout event for restricted content data; instructions to configure in a blackout management system at the data distribution system, client devices into a client device group subject to the blackout event in accordance with the event criterion data; instructions to configure in the blackout management system at the data distribution system, at least one substitution event data table for the client device group; instructions to send from the blackout management system in the data distribution system, restricted content data and the substitution event data table embedded in the restricted content data to each client device in the client device group; instructions to display graphical display data indicating a graphical representation of a set of blackout event status data; instructions to dynamically update the graphical display data indicating changed blackout event status data when a change occurs in the blackout event status data for the blackout event; instructions to receive at the blackout management system, retune activity data from at least one of the client devices in the client device group; instructions to correlate at the blackout management system, the blackout event data with the retune activity data to verify the occurrence of the blackout event in the client devices; and instructions to compare time of day data for the retune activity data for the client devices in the client device group to time of day for the blackout event data to verify that the retune activity data coincides with the blackout event data.