Customer premise equipment device-specific access-limiting for a cable modem and a customer premise equipment device
First Claim
1. A modem configuration method comprising:
- receiving, at a modem termination server, a request for access from an unprovisioned modem; and
prior to the modem termination server fully provisioning the modem, the modem termination server partially provisioning the modem to grant different levels of temporary access to the server for different types of customer premise equipment serviced by the modem, whereina first level of temporary access allows a first type of customer premise equipment to use the modem to temporarily access a resource offered by the modem termination server while the modem is awaiting full provisioning, anda second level of temporary access does not allow a second type of customer premise equipment to use the modem to access that resource offered by the modem termination server while the modem is awaiting full 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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10 Claims
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1. A modem configuration method comprising:
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receiving, at a modem termination server, a request for access from an unprovisioned modem; and prior to the modem termination server fully provisioning the modem, the modem termination server partially provisioning the modem to grant different levels of temporary access to the server for different types of customer premise equipment serviced by the modem, wherein a first level of temporary access allows a first type of customer premise equipment to use the modem to temporarily access a resource offered by the modem termination server while the modem is awaiting full provisioning, and a second level of temporary access does not allow a second type of customer premise equipment to use the modem to access that resource offered by the modem termination server while the modem is awaiting full provisioning. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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