Providing multiple communication protocol failover and remote diagnostics via a customer premise apparatus
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method for providing multiple communications protocol failover and remote diagnostic functionality via a customer premise equipment (CPE) device, the method comprising:
- enabling the CPE device to have a primary data path and a secondary data path;
routing communications traffic via the primary data path;
determining whether the primary data path is active; and
in response to determining that the primary data path is inactive, failing over the communications traffic from the primary data path to the secondary data path.
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Abstract
Computer-implemented methods, computer program products and customer premise equipment (CPE) apparatuses provide multiple communications protocol failover and remote diagnostic functionality in facilitating communication services to and from a user'"'"'s premise. A method involves configuring a CPE apparatus for a primary data path and a secondary data path, receiving communications traffic via the CPE apparatus, aggregating the communications traffic, and routing the communications traffic via the primary data path. The method also involves determining whether the primary data path is active and in response to determining that the primary data path is inactive, failing over the communications traffic from the primary data path to the secondary data path thereby allowing redundancy via the CPE apparatus.
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22 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for providing multiple communications protocol failover and remote diagnostic functionality via a customer premise equipment (CPE) device, the method comprising:
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enabling the CPE device to have a primary data path and a secondary data path;
routing communications traffic via the primary data path;
determining whether the primary data path is active; and
in response to determining that the primary data path is inactive, failing over the communications traffic from the primary data path to the secondary data path. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A computing apparatus for facilitating multiple protocol failover and remote diagnostic functionality for integrated communications services, the apparatus comprising:
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an integrated access device (IAD) operative to configure, to install, and to provision integrated voice and data services, the IAD enabled to have a primary data path and a secondary data path;
an analog modem in associative communication with the IAD and operative to convert digital signals to analog signals and to transform incoming analog signals to a digital equivalent; and
a router in associative communication with the IAD and the analog modem, the router operative to determine what path to send each data packet received;
wherein the apparatus is compatible with at least one of time division multiplexing, voice over network, or IP multimedia service and wherein the apparatus is operative to;
determine whether the primary data path is inactive;
failover one or more of the communications services from the primary data path to at least the secondary data path in response to determining that the primary data path is inactive; and
facilitate remote diagnostic functionality to determine a cause of failing over. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A computer program product comprising a computer-readable medium having control logic stored therein for causing a customer premise computing apparatus to provide multiple communications protocol failover and remote diagnostic functionality when a communication service data path becomes inactive, the control logic comprising computer-readable program code for causing the computing apparatus to:
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enable a primary data path and a secondary data path for communications traffic;
receive the communications traffic;
aggregate the communications traffic;
route the communications traffic via the primary data path;
determine whether the primary data path is active; and
in response to determining that the primary data path is inactive, fail over the communications traffic from the primary data path to the secondary data path thereby allowing redundancy via the computing apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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21. A computing apparatus for providing multiple protocol failover functionality for communications services, the apparatus comprising:
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an integrated access device (LAD) operative to configure, to install, and to provision integrated voice and data services, the IAD enabled to have a T1 data path and a voice over network (VON) data path for communications traffic;
an analog modem in associative communication with the IAD and operative to convert digital signals to modulated analog signals for transmission over a communications path and to transform incoming analog signals to a digital equivalent; and
a router in associative communication with the IAD and the analog modem, the router operative to examine each data packet received to determine what path to send the data packet and to send the data packet to a destination;
wherein the apparatus is operative to;
route the communications traffic via the T1 data path;
determine whether the T1 data path is inactive; and
failover the communications traffic from the T1 data path to the VON data path in response to determining that the T1 data path is inactive. - View Dependent Claims (22)
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