Customer Premise Equipment Device-Specific Access-Limiting for a Cable Modem and a Customer Premise Equipment Device
First Claim
1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by at least one provisioning system computer, cause the provisioning system server to perform:
- receiving a request for access from an unprovisioned access device; and
prior to provisioning the access device, partially provisioning the access device to grant different levels of temporary access to the provisioning system for different types of customer premise equipment serviced by the access device, whereina first level of temporary access allows a first type of customer premise equipment to use the access device to temporarily access a resource offered by the provisioning system while the access device is awaiting provisioning, anda second level of temporary access does not allow a second type of customer premise equipment to use the access device to access that resource offered by the provisioning system while the access device is awaiting provisioning.
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Abstract
A method of initializing, provisioning, and managing a cable modem and a customer premise equipment device includes, prior to receiving the configuration file for the cable modem, providing an equipment identification message containing a description of the customer premise equipment device connected to the cable modem. In the case where the cable modem has yet to be provisioned, the configuration file received from the network server is a particular access-limiting configuration file that is selected from a group of access-limiting configuration files. The selection of the particular access-limiting configuration file is based on the description of the customer premise equipment device in the equipment identification message. This allows different devices to have different network restrictions or different walled gardens.
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20 Claims
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1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by at least one provisioning system computer, cause the provisioning system server to perform:
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receiving a request for access from an unprovisioned access device; and prior to provisioning the access device, partially provisioning the access device to grant different levels of temporary access to the provisioning system for different types of customer premise equipment serviced by the access device, wherein a first level of temporary access allows a first type of customer premise equipment to use the access device to temporarily access a resource offered by the provisioning system while the access device is awaiting provisioning, and a second level of temporary access does not allow a second type of customer premise equipment to use the access device to access that resource offered by the provisioning system while the access device is awaiting provisioning. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A server comprising:
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a processor; and memory storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the server to perform a method including; receiving a request for access from an unprovisioned access device; and prior to the server provisioning the access device, the server partially provisioning the access device to grant different levels of temporary access to the server for different types of customer premise equipment serviced by the access device, wherein a first level of temporary access allows a first type of customer premise equipment to use the access device to temporarily access a resource offered by the server while the access device is awaiting provisioning, and a second level of temporary access does not allow a second type of customer premise equipment to use the access device to access that resource offered by the server while the access device is awaiting provisioning. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A gateway device, the gateway device comprising:
an access device configured to perform the following; upon connection of the access device to a provisioning system, and prior to provisioning of the access device, the access device providing one or more equipment identification messages to the provisioning system, the one or more messages identifying a plurality of consumer premise equipment to be serviced by the access device; and
the access device receiving one or more access device configuration files from the provisioning system; andthe access device using the one or more configuration files to provide different levels of pre-provisioning network access to the plurality of consumer premise equipment based on device type while awaiting provisioning from the provisioning system. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of controlling network access, comprising:
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receiving, by a provisioning system, a request for access provisioning from an unprovisioned access device on a network managed by the provisioning system; identifying, by the provisioning system, a plurality of different pieces of consumer premise equipment to be serviced by the access device; and granting, by the server and to the access device, different levels of pre-provisioning access to the network for the plurality of different pieces of consumer premise equipment to be serviced by the access device. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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