Patent ID: 8290427

Claim:
A method for providing video surveillance services, said method comprising: receiving a network address of digital television equipment of a customer of a communications service provider; validating the network address of the digital television equipment; communicating a private network address to the digital television equipment; communicating the network address and private network address to a provisioning system of a communications service provider to be associated with a customer record of the communications service provider, the communications service provider providing at least one communications service to the customer other than video surveillance services; communicating a first digital rights management key to the television equipment; communicating a second digital rights management key with the telecommunications device; authenticating the telecommunications device in response to a request to access a video surveillance signal generated by video surveillance equipment in communication with the digital television equipment; in response to the telecommunications device being authenticated, instructing the digital television equipment to encode the video surveillance signal generated by the video surveillance equipment; and establishing a communications link between the telecommunications device and the digital television equipment to enable the customer to view the encoded video surveillance signal.