Patent ID: 9215477
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a television distribution device, updated television content files via a network; checking, by the television distribution device to identify one or more issues related to data integrity and data verification, the updated television content files one or more times until a first threshold value of the checking is exceeded or until a determination that no issues related to the data integrity and the data verification exist; notifying, by the television distribution device after each of the one or more times, network operation support personnel of the identified one or more issues via alerts of successive levels corresponding to each of the one or more times; determining, by the television distribution device, common content for delivery to every television distribution site of a plurality of television distribution sites and select content for delivery to respective television distribution sites of the plurality television distribution sites; generating, by the television distribution device, an updated television content package including the common content for each television distribution site, the select content for the respective television distribution sites, and a file that provides an indication, to copy the updated television content packages, to a plurality of television distribution devices associated with the plurality of television distribution sites; comparing, by the television distribution device, a size of the updated television content package to a size of a previously-sent corresponding television content package; notifying the network operation support personnel when the size of the updated television content package differs from the size of the previously-sent corresponding television content package by more than a second threshold value; identifying, by the television distribution device when the size of the updated television content package differs from the size of the previously-sent corresponding television content package by less than the second threshold value, one of the plurality of television distribution devices, associated with each of the plurality of television distribution sites, to receive the updated television content package; providing, by the television distribution device, the updated television content package to each of the identified television distribution devices.