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Customer premises equipment autoconfiguration

US7111054B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 28, 2001
Grant dateSep 19, 2006
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Expiry dateDec 22, 2023

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L2012/5626
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for automatically configuring customer premises equipment, the system including a search module configured to select a set of configuration values and to create a discover packet including the set of configuration values. The discover packet is transmitted to attempt a connection with a network access device. If no response packet is received from the network access device, the search module selects another set of configuration values and creates another discover packet. If a response packet is received from the network access device, the search module stores the correct configuration values from the header of the response packet into a configuration register. A memory stores a subset of all possible configuration values including commonly used values.

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