| US 7,590,129 B2 | ||
| Complementary residential gateway management | ||
| Luc Absillis, Raleigh, N.C. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Alcatel Lucent, Paris (France) | ||
| Filed on May 17, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/383,781. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/748022, filed on Dec. 07, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0127506 A1, Jun. 07, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04L 12/28 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 370—401 [370/352; 370/493] | 14 Claims |
| 1. A method for communicating management information with a destination residential gateway as a customer premises equipment
(CPE) in a digital subscriber network, comprising:
transmitting the CPE management information as data packets addressed to a selected one of a plurality of predetermined management
path addresses exclusively associated with CPE management in the network, each management address of the plurality uniquely
identifying one of a plurality of CPE's in the network;
reconfiguring the data packets to translate the selected one of the plurality of management path addresses to a predetermined
fixed address, the predetermined fixed address being common to the plurality of CPE's in the network and the predetermined
fixed address is a private Internet Protocol address for locally managing the residential gateway and the predetermined fixed
address is a private Internet Protocol address for locally managing the CPE;
transmitting the CPE management information to a destination CPE as reconfigured data packets addressed to the predetermined
fixed address; and
determining if the destination CPE is in an enabling state enabling communication with the network via a dynamically assigned
address, wherein the step of transmitting the CPE management information as data packets addressed to a selected one of a
plurality of predetermined management path addresses is performed if the destination CPE is not in the enabling state.
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