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Home gateway device for providing multiple services to customer devices

US8351427B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 28, 2006
Grant dateJan 8, 2013
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Expiry dateNov 28, 2028

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L12/5692
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A telecommunication node such as a home gateway and a method of routing data packets received from customer premises devices connected to the node. The node includes an operator-configurable service profile table for storing service profiles and a user-configurable customer devices table for storing the source addresses of the customer premises devices and associations between each source address and at least one of the service profiles. The operator controls service provisioning while the user can freely allocate the customer premises devices to different service profiles and can access a plurality of services from the same device.

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