HOME SYSTEM FOR MANAGING AN INTERNET ACCESS CONNECTION

• US 20140185433A1
• Filed: 05/03/2012
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Voltalis SA
• Original Assignee: Voltalis SA
• Inventors: Lefebvre De Saint Germain, Hugues, Bivas, Pierre, Heintz, Bruno, Bineau, Mathieu, Oury, Jean Marc
• Granted Patent: US 9,775,058 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/228
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2898 Subscriber equipments DSL modems H04M11/062; cable modems H04L12/2801
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0668 by dynamic selection of recovery network elements, e.g. replacement by the most appropriate element after failure
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/04 Arrangements for maintaining operational condition

Abstract

“A home system for managing an internet network (9) access connection in which at least one computer (80) can access the internet by way of a main home connection (8). The system contains means (83) capable of detecting a failure to connect to the internet network (9) on the main home connection (8) and of controlling an automatic failover to a back-up connection comprising a control box (5) of a system for the real-time measurement and modulation of the power consumption of a plurality of electrical appliances (2). The control box (5) is capable of accessing the internet network (9) by way of a wireless connection (6) of packet telephony type.”

Claims

1. Home system for managing an interact network access connection in which at least one computer can access the interact network by way of a main home connection, said system comprising:

means capable of detecting a failure to connect to the internet network on said main home connection and of controlling an automatic failover to a back-up connection having a control box of a system for the real-time measurement and modulation of the power consumption of a plurality of electrical appliances,

said control box being capable of accessing the internet network by way of a wireless connection of packet telephony type.

2. Home system for managing an internet network access connection according to claim 1, wherein the main home connection is carried out by way of a modem box to which the computer is linked by a first communications link.

3. Home system for managing an internet network access connection according to claim 2, wherein said modern box is also a data router.

4. Home system for managing an internet network access connection according to claim 2, wherein said modern box is linked to the control box by way of a second communications link.

5. Home system for managing an internet network access connection according claim 1, wherein said computer is directly linked to said control box by a third communications link.

6. Home system for managing an internet network access connection according to claim 2, wherein said first communications link and/or said second communications link and/or said third communications link is of wired type, notably an Ethernet link or a link by power tine carrier.

7. Home system for managing an internet network access connection according to claim 1, wherein said first communications link and/or said second communications link and/or said third communications link is of short-range radiofrequency type, notably a WiFi or Bluetooth link.

8. Home system for managing an internet network access connection according to claim 1, said wireless connection is of GPRS, 3G or 4G type.

9. Home system for managing an internet network access connection according to claim 1, wherein said means are a software module stored in a memory of the computer.

10. Home system for managing an internet network access connection according to claim 2, said means (83) are a software module stored in a memory of the modem box (81) or of the control box (5).