METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING AND MANAGING CUSTOMER PREMISES EQUIPMENT

• US 20090225681A1
• Filed: 05/19/2009
• Published: 09/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wu, Huangwei
• Granted Patent: US 8,116,221 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/254
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0843 based on generic templates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0886 Fully automatic configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A method and apparatus for configuring and managing customer premises equipments (CPE) are disclosed. The method includes obtaining information of the data model supported by the CPE; extracting the CPE data model and the relationship between the CPE data model and the CPE from the obtained information; finding the data model supported by a specific CPE according to the relationship between the CPE data model and the CPE; and configuring and managing the specific CPE according to the found data model of the CPE. The present invention is able to configure and manage a specific CPE based on CPE data model by associating in advance the CPE data model with the device class information of the CPE and finding the data model of the CPE based on the device class information of the CPE.

Claims

1. A method for managing custom premises equipment, CPE, comprising:

obtaining data model information supported by the CPE; and

managing the CPE based on the data model information supported by the CPE, according to device class information of the CPE.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of obtaining the data model information supported by the CPE comprises:

obtaining the data model information supported by the CPE via a northbound interface of an auto-configuration server, ACS;

or

obtaining the data model information supported by the CPE from a network based on a uniform resource locator reported by the CPE.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the obtaining the data model information supported by the CPE from a network based on a uniform resource locator reported by the CPE comprises:

obtaining the data model information supported by the CPE according to the uniform resource locator from a server in the network;

or

obtaining the data model information supported by the CPE according to the uniform resource locator from the CPE.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining the data model information supported by the CPE further comprises:

extracting a data model supported by the CPE from the data module information; and

obtaining a relationship between the data model supported by the CPE and the CPE according to the data model and the device class information of the CPE.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein before the obtaining data model information supported by the CPE, the method further comprises:

searching for a relationship between the CPE and the data model supported by the CPE according to the device class information of the CPE; and

confirming that the relationship between the CPE and the data model supported by the CPE is not stored.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the data model information supported by the CPE comprises:

parameters supported by the CPE and the type of the parameters;

or

a Remote Procedure Call, RPC, method supported by the CPE and arguments of the RPC method, argument type, range and RPC call return information regarding the RPC method;

and the method further comprises;

extracting the RPC method supported by the CPE from the data model information supported by the CPE if the data model information of the CPE comprises the RPC method supported by the CPE.

15. The method of claim 6, wherein the data model information supported by the CPE further comprises:

a range of the parameters or device class information of the CPE; and

the method further comprising;

extracting the device class information of the CPE from the data model information if the data model information comprises the device class information.

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12. An apparatus for managing custom premises equipments, CPE, comprising:

a CPE data model information obtaining module, configured to obtain the data model information supported by the CPE;

a CPE configuration module, configured to manage the CPE based on the data model information supported by the CPE according to device class information of the CPE.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising:

a module for associating CPE data model with device class, configured to extract the data model supported by the CPE and the device class of the CPE according to the data model information supported by the CPE and associate the device class of the CPE with its corresponding data model;

a CPE data model matching module, configured to search for a corresponding CPE data mode based on the device class of the CPE.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the CPE configuration module is configured to manage the CPE based on the data model determined by the CPE data model matching module.

16. A method for managing custom premises equipment, CPE, comprising:

obtaining a uniform resource locator from the CPE, wherein the uniform resource locator references an Extensible Markup Language file which describes a data model supported by the CPE;

obtaining the data model supported by the CPE based on the uniform resource locator; and

configuring the CPE according to the data model.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the obtaining of the data model supported by the CPE based on the uniform resource locator comprises at least one of:

obtaining the data model information supported by the CPE according to the uniform resource locator from a server in the network; and

obtaining the data model information supported by the CPE according to the uniform resource locator from the CPE.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the data model supported by the CPE comprises at least one of:

parameters supported by the CPE, and type of the parameters; and

a Remote Procedure Call, RPC, method supported by the CPE and arguments of the RPC method, argument type, range and RPC call return information regarding the RPC method.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the data model information supported by the CPE further comprises:

a range of the parameters or device class information of the CPE.

20. An apparatus for managing custom premises equipment, configured to implement the method comprising:

obtaining a uniform resource locator from the CPE, wherein the uniform resource locator references an Extensible Markup Language file which describes a data model supported by the CPE;

obtaining the data model supported by the CPE based on the uniform resource locator; and

configuring the CPE according to the data model.