METHOD FOR A TELECOMMUNICATION'S NETWORK, CENTRAL OFFICE, AND NETWORK TERMINATING UNIT

• US 20120219143A1
• Filed: 10/26/2010
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Hehmann, Jörg, Pfeiffer, Thomas
• Granted Patent: US 8,681,962 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/243
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2801 Broadband local area networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2861 Point-to-multipoint connection from the data network to the subscribers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42144 by service provider

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for a telecommunication'"'"'s network with a central office (CO), an access network (AN), a multiple of network terminating units (DPD) and customer premises equipment (CPE) connected thereto, to assign a customer premises equipment (CPE) to a service contract (SI) registered in the central office (CO), in which, when the network terminating units (DPD) are identifiable unambiguously and individually and when the customer premises equipment (CPE) is identifiable unambiguously, the service contract (SI) is assigned, to a particular customer premises equipment (CPE) as a result of an action (OS) of a network terminating unit (DPD) being recognizable by the central office (CO) and being coordinated with signals sent from a customer premises equipment CPE) connected to said network terminating unit (DPD), and in which such coordination is detected in the central office (CO) for assignment, to a central office, and to a network terminating unit.

Claims

1. Method for a telecommunication'"'"'s network with a central office, an access network, a multiple of network terminating units and customer premises equipment connected thereto, to assign a customer premises equipment to a service contract registered in the central office, wherein when the network terminating units are identifiable unambiguously and individually and when the customer premises equipment is identifiable unambiguously, the service contract is assigned to a particular customer premises equipment as a result of an action of a network terminating unit being recognizable by the central office and being coordinated with signals sent from a customer premises equipment connected to said network terminating unit, and that such coordination is detected in the central office for assignment.

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein the network terminating unit in cooperation with the central office affects the information transfer between a customer premises equipment connected to the network termination unit and the central office in a characteristic way and that in the central office the required assignment is performed by comparing to time the result of the characteristic affectation performed by the network terminating unit with the unambiguous identification of the customer premises equipment involved in the information transfer affected in the characteristic way.

3. Method according to claim 2, wherein the method is performed on occasion of the connection of a customer premises equipment, and that the affecting the information transfer in a characteristic way is performed by interrupting the information multiple times in a characteristic way, in what way the customer premises equipment multiple times resumes the information transfer using the unambiguous identification.

4. Method according to claim 2, wherein the affecting the information transfer in a characteristic way is performed by reducing the level of the information transfer multiple times in a characteristic way by attenuation whereby the information transfer with the customer premises equipment is assignable unambiguously to the network terminating unit performing the attenuation.

5. Method according to claim 1, wherein the network terminating unit detects at least a first-time start of information transfer between a customer premises equipment connected to the network terminating unit and the central office and reports this to the central office and that the central office performs the assignment based on the chronology of the start of an information transfer from a customer premises equipment and the reporting by the network terminating unit.

6. Central office for a telecommunication'"'"'s network with a central office, an access network, a multiple of network terminating units and customer premises equipment connected thereto, characterised in, that it includes recognition means for recognizing an action of a network terminating unit and the coordination therewith with signals sent to the central office from a customer premises equipment connected to the network terminating unit, and that it the central office includes assignment means for assigning a customer premises equipment to a service contract registered in the central office.

7. Network terminating unit for a telecommunication'"'"'s network with a central office, an access network, a multiple of network terminating units and customer premises equipment connected thereto, wherein the network terminating unit includes control means for recognizing or influencing signals sent from a customer premises equipment connected to the control means to a central office or influencing signals sent from the central office to a customer premises equipment, and for coordinating in time with the central office such recognizing or influencing.