Patent ID: 8671457

Claim:
A method for identifying location errors in a subscriber content delivery network for a set of at least one receivers, the method comprising the steps of: a) obtaining a first indicia of location for each receiver of the set of at least one receivers; b) obtaining a second indicia of location for each receiver of the set of at least one receivers; c) comparing said first indicia of location to said second indicia of location; d) for said each receiver, determining whether said first indicia of location is inconsistent with said second indicia of location to determine whether said each receiver has an inconsistency in its indicia of location; and wherein said first and second indicia of location comprise information that is indicative of a physical location associated with said each receiver, wherein at least one of said first and second indicia of location is obtained as aforesaid other than from information utilized by a conditional access system associated with said subscriber content delivery network, and wherein the conditional access system controls subscriber access to subscriber content delivered over said subscriber content delivery network.