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Device-to-device communication among customer premise equipment devices

  • US 20070177614A1
  • Filed: 11/22/2006
  • Published: 08/02/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of initializing, provisioning, and managing a cable modem and a customer premise equipment device, the customer premise equipment device being connected to the cable modem, the cable modem being connected to a cable modem termination system, the cable modem termination system being connected to a provider network, the method including initializing the cable modem connection to the cable modem termination system, providing the cable modem with a network address, and the cable modem receiving a cable modem configuration file from a network server, wherein the configuration file contains service provisioning information, the cable modem passing certain contents of the configuration file to the cable modem termination system, and the cable modem termination system passing certain identifiers back to the cable modem, the method further comprising:

  • wherein the configuration file further includes information indicative of a device-to-device communication configuration, passing a message from the cable modem to the customer premise equipment device indicative of the device-to-device communication configuration;

    receiving the message at the customer premise equipment device;

    initializing the customer premise equipment device for device-to-device communication with any other customer premise equipment devices in accordance with the device-to-device communication configuration indicated in the message; and

    wherein the device-to-device communication configuration relates to physical layer and data link layer communications among customer premise equipment devices.

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