SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC PROVISIONING OF ONSITE NETWORKING SERVICES
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Abstract
The system and method described herein may activate an automatic provisioning system within customer premise equipment via a digital subscriber line, cable modem, or other residential hub or gateway interface and access a remote directory service to locate appropriate addressing and other information to initialize the customer premise equipment. The gateway interface may automatically update a configuration, heal bugs, and perform other maintenance and tasks to manage the customer premise equipment. Multiple gateway interfaces or products or services associated therewith may be configured at one premise and version control may be maintained to ensure compatibility.
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22 Claims
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3. A method, comprising:
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representing a piece of equipment as a managed object and populating the managed Object to a directory; capturing, by the managed object, diagnostics for the piece of equipment; and installing a new service to an environment associated with the piece of equipment in response to evaluation of the diagnostics, the new service having testing and monitoring capabilities relevant to the piece of equipment. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5)
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12. A method, comprising:
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interfacing a network device to a directory, the directory including a representation for a managed object; executing the managed object in an environment of a customer; monitoring the managed object for diagnostics; and deploying a new service to the environment in response to the diagnostics. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A system, comprising:
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a directory; a server configured and adapted to;
i) represent a managed object in the directory, ii) execute the managed object on the server, iii) evaluate diagnostics produced by the managed object, and iv) install a new service to an environment based on the diagnostics. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22)
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Specification