Patent ID: 7367039

Claim:
A method of evaluating callback functionality between a subscriber integrated receiver decoder (IRD) and a satellite broadcast center (SBC) in a subscriber satellite TV network, said IRD including a subscriber conditional access module (CAM) to assure that television programming can be selected and downloaded from a satellite broadcast stream broadcast over a satellite transponder channel from the SBC, comprising: Connecting the IRD to a separate back channel for communicating billing information to the SBC through a callback function; Placing a test call including a test signal from the IRD to the SBC over the back channel; Evaluating the quality of the received test signal at the SBC; Recording the callback function valid or invalid signal at the SBC; Returning a callback function valid or invalid signal to the subscriber IRD; Once a callback function valid signal is received at the IRD, terminating the call; and Placing another call to a customer service representative (CSR) to initialize services, said CSR verifying that the callback function valid signal was recorded and authorizing payment to the identified installer.