ADAPTIVE PROTOCOL/INITIALIZATION TECHNIQUE SELECTION

• US 20120084416A1
• Filed: 09/30/2010
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: General Instrument Corporation (CommScope Holding Company, Inc.)
• Inventors: Thibeault, Brian K., Hui, Wei-Hung, Morrissette, Marc L.
• Granted Patent: US 9,306,807 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/222
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2801 Broadband local area networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0846 based on copy from other elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0886 Fully automatic configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/066 Telephone sets adapted for data transmision

Abstract

A method for selection of an initialization technique and protocol for a communications device is provided. The method includes, but is not limited to, selecting a primary initialization technique from a set list of initialization techniques, implementing the primary initialization technique to initialize and move the communications device, and determining if the communications device has been initialized and moved. If the communications device has not been initialized and moved upon implementing the primary initialization technique, an additional initialization technique is selected from the set list of initialization techniques and implemented to initialize and move the communications device.

Claims

1. A method for selection of an initialization technique and protocol for a communications device, the method comprising:

selecting a primary initialization technique from a set list of initialization techniques;

implementing the primary initialization technique to initialize and move the communications device; and

determining if the communications device has been initialized and moved, wherein if the communications device has not been initialized and moved upon implementing the primary initialization technique, an additional initialization technique is selected from the set list of initialization techniques and implemented to initialize and move the communications device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein additional initialization techniques are selected and implemented to initialize and move the communications device until the communications device is initialized and moved or until all the initialization techniques within the set list of initialization techniques are selected and implemented.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising designating the communications device as a non-movable communications device upon selecting and implementing all initialization techniques from the set list of initialization techniques and upon determining that the communications device cannot be initialized and moved successfully.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

querying the communications device to obtain conditional information from the communications device; and

adaptively selecting the primary initialization technique from the set list of initialization techniques based on the conditional information received from the communications device.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising developing an initialization database which lists the conditional information along with a working initialization technique which has initialized and moved the communications device.

6. A method for selection of an initialization technique for a current communications device, the method comprising:

querying the current communications device to obtain conditional information from the current communications device;

adaptively selecting a primary initialization technique from the set list of initialization techniques based on the conditional information received from the current communications device; and

implementing the primary initialization technique to initialize the current communications device.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising determining if the current communications device has been initialized by the primary initialization technique.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising designating the primary initialization technique a working initialization technique if the current communications device has been initialized by the primary initialization technique.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising developing an initialization database which lists the conditional information along with the working initialization technique which initializes the current communications device having the conditional information.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the adaptively selecting of the primary initialization technique is from an initialization database which lists the conditional information along with a working initialization technique which can initialize a known communications device having the same or similar conditional information as the current communications device.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising amending the initialization database based on whether or not the current communications device has been initialized by the selected initialization technique.

12. The method of claim 6, wherein the communications device is a modem.

13. A method for selection of an initialization technique for a current communications device, the method comprising:

adaptively selecting a working initialization technique from an initialization database which lists the working initialization technique for initializing a known communications device having the same or similar conditional information as the current communications device; and

implementing the working initialization technique to initialize the current communications device.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising determining if the current communications device has been initialized by the working initialization technique.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising amending the initialization database to include current conditional information for the current communications device along with the working initialization technique used to initialize the current communications device, if the current communications device has been initialized by the working initialization technique.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein if the communications device has not been initialized upon implementing the primary initialization technique, an additional initialization technique is selected and implemented to initialize the communications device.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein additional initialization techniques are selected and implemented to initialize the current communications device until the current communications device is initialized or until all the initialization techniques within a set list of initialization techniques are selected and implemented.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising designating the current communications device as a non-movable communications device upon selecting and implementing all initialization techniques from the set list of initialization techniques, and upon determining that the current communications device has not been initialized.