Patent ID: 8584177

Claim:
A method of controlling delivery of video programs from video distribution equipment to video receiver devices, the method comprising: receiving, at the video distribution equipment from a mobile terminal operated by a user, messages containing user defined identifiers that are associated with equipment identifiers of different ones of the video receiver devices, wherein the receiving further comprises communicating images to the video receiver devices that are registered with a subscriber account, wherein each of the video receiver devices receives a different image, and receiving, in each of the messages from the mobile terminal, image selection data that identifies one of the images that is selected by the user as corresponding to one of the images observed by the user through one of the video receiver devices and receiving a user defined identifier for the one of the video receiver devices, wherein the image selection data is a picture of one of the images displayed through one of the video receiver devices; storing the user defined identifiers associated with the equipment identifiers in the subscriber account; and controlling delivery of video programs from the video distribution equipment to the video receiver devices in response to commands received from the mobile terminal requesting delivery of identified video programs to identified ones of the user defined identifiers.