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Systems and methods for virtualizing customer-premises equipment

  • US 9,565,103 B1
  • Filed: 03/26/2014
  • Issued: 02/07/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for virtualizing customer-premises equipment, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising:

  • receiving, at a service provider'"'"'s network, at least one flow of network traffic from a remote device included in a user'"'"'s private network;

    identifying, within the flow of network traffic, at least one potentially non-unique private address that represents the remote device with respect to the user'"'"'s private network;

    determining, based at least in part on a network interface assigned to the user'"'"'s private network and the potentially non-unique private address, at least one unique routable address that represents the remote device with respect to the service provider'"'"'s network;

    in response to determining the unique routable address, translating the potentially non-unique private address to the unique routable address to facilitate routing return network traffic to the remote device in connection with the flow of network traffic.

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