Methods and systems for providing supported DSL communications features as selections
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1. A method comprising:
- determining a full menu of features available for selection, wherein the features are based on digital subscriber link communications features that are to be provided via a customer premises equipment of a customer premises;
transmitting test signals on a connection to the customer premises;
receiving response signals on the connection;
determining parameters for the connection based on an age, a length and a gauge size of a conductor of the connection and based on parameters of the response signals including signal integrity determined from a comparison of a shape of the response signals with a stored profile;
determining a set of features offered by a provider that are supported by the connection to the customer premises based on the determined parameters;
using a network server, eliminating selections from the full menu to generate a supported menu by providing only the set of features as selections, the set of features including less than the full menu of features available for selection so that at least one of the features is eliminated from the full menu; and
presenting the supported menu to enable selection of any feature in the set of features.
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Abstract
A method of offering Digital Subscriber Link (DSL) communications features includes eliminating selections from a menu of features to be provided via a Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) to a customer premises prior to allowing selections from the menu.
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1. A method comprising:
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determining a full menu of features available for selection, wherein the features are based on digital subscriber link communications features that are to be provided via a customer premises equipment of a customer premises; transmitting test signals on a connection to the customer premises; receiving response signals on the connection; determining parameters for the connection based on an age, a length and a gauge size of a conductor of the connection and based on parameters of the response signals including signal integrity determined from a comparison of a shape of the response signals with a stored profile; determining a set of features offered by a provider that are supported by the connection to the customer premises based on the determined parameters; using a network server, eliminating selections from the full menu to generate a supported menu by providing only the set of features as selections, the set of features including less than the full menu of features available for selection so that at least one of the features is eliminated from the full menu; and presenting the supported menu to enable selection of any feature in the set of features. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system offering Digital Subscriber Link communications features, the system comprising:
a Digital Subscriber Link communications feature server configured to eliminate selections from a menu of features to be provided via a customer premises equipment to a customer premises prior to allowing selections from the menu, wherein the Digital Subscriber Link communications feature server is further configured to determine a full menu of features available for selection from the menu and then to provide less than the full menu of features available for selection so that at least one of the features is eliminated from the full menu, wherein the Digital Subscriber Link communications feature server is further configured to determine a set of features offered by a provider that are supported by a connection to the customer premises and configured to provide only the set of features as selections on the menu, wherein the set of features are determined based on parameters of response signals received from the customer premises equipment, wherein the parameters include signal integrity determined from a comparison of a shape of the response signals with a stored profile. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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