Alcatel Lucent

Facebook, Inc.

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Christele Bouchat

Pascal Justen

Christoph Stevens

Werner Mario Liekens

Jan Coppens

Willem Jozef Amaat Acke

Pascal Marie Edouard Julien Justen

Sven Jozef Jeanne Van Den Bosch

Erwin Alfons Constant Six

Erwin Six

Christian Marie Adelin Hublet

Tom Van Leeuwen

Michel Ferdinand Pauline Tassent

Laurent Thiebaut

Wim Henderickx

Yang Shen

Jeanne Emmanuelle Rita De Jaegher

Sven Maurice Joseph Ooghe

Willem Acke

Nico Alfred Anna Janssens

Jeremy Nicolas Jean Herman De Clercq

Werner Liekens

Christophe Stevens

Sylvie Adriana Louisa Bracke

Willem Jozef Arnaat Acke

Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method, device and computer readable medium for coordination between wireline and wireless policy controllers. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the service controller is able to coordinate between information about a wireless subscription for mapping from a traffic multiplexer used in a wireline access to a wireless data session selector and information sent to a wireline Residential Gateway device about mapping application traffic to a traffic multiplexer used in a wireline access.

Coordination between wireline and wireless policy controllers

Managing a plurality of communication devices in an access network by successively establishing a layer two point-to-point layer two connection from an access unit to each of the communication devices of the plurality of communication devices during a management phase and establishing a cross-connection for the layer two point-to-point connection to a permanent layer two connection between the access unit and a management server.

Method for management of communication devices in an access network and a related access unit

Network system comprising multiple access network gateways interconnected via networking equipment, each of the access network gateways being adapted for connecting user equipment devices to the network system, wherein the network system comprises a database wherein private networks are defined as groups of predetermined user equipment devices, and wherein the access network gateway are configured to interconnect user equipment devices belonging to a single private network via SDN service chains to emulate the single private network inside the network system.

Network system

A method for managing network traffic between one or more user equipment devices in a private network and a server outside the private network via a private gateway, a server gateway and a connection therebetween. The server gateway acts as a router and the private gateway acts as a bridge. The method including monitoring the connection between the private gateway and the server gateway; in the event of loss of connection, switching the private gateway from a bridge operation mode to a minimal service mode; repeating the previous method steps; in case of retrieved connection, switching the private gateway from the minimal service mode back to the bridge operation mode; and repeating the previous method steps. The private gateway provides minimal routing services to allow data traffic in the private network to continue in the minimal service mode.

Method and system for managing network traffic

A method and apparatus for use in management of a plurality of parameters of customer premises equipment automatically and dynamically selects and/or alters one or more of a plurality of parameters based on credentials. A particular service provider can be authorized to view and/or alter one or more parameters based on credentials associated with the particular service provider. Specific service providers can be restricted to viewing other service provider's parameters while being allowed to change parameters associated with the specific service provider.

Module and associated method for TR-069 object management

A customer device is configured to allow remote installation of an application module and remote configuration from a remote management server. The application module includes a parameter model with model parameters configured for communication automatically between the remote management client residing in the customer device and the remote management server via a remote management protocol. The parameter model further includes at least one description parameter that formally describes a new model parameter forming part of the parameter model. The description parameter triggers creation of the new model parameter at the remote management server.

Application module and remote management server with parameter description model

The present invention is related to a method to control and to change dynamically a MAC address in an aggregation network containing at least a server computer device and a client device, comprising the steps of:

Dynamic change of MAC address

A remote management system is able to remotely manage service objects () in a bundle (). The remote management system thereto contains a management platform () in a customer device where the bundle () is installed, a remote management server () somewhere in the network, and a management agent () able to expose the service object representation () of the service objects () via a remote management protocol () to the remote management server (). The remote management system in addition is foreseen with a proxy bundle () with a generic interface to populate and export a generic service object representation () of the service objects () towards the management agent ().

Remote management system and method for service objects

The present invention relates to a security module for use in management of a TR-069 Object Model of a device. The Object Model comprises a plurality of parameters for selection by a view selector module based on credentials and for defining thereby an object model view associated to the device. The security module comprises means for associating the object model view to a security policy and means for configuring the security attributes of the security policy on an intermediate network entity.

A device at a Customer Premises Equipment that comprising Device Dependent Services that are to be configured by a remote Auto-Configuration Server is claimed. The device comprises also Device Independent Services on top of a Service Platform (SPLF). The device is hereby adapted to be configured by a plurality of Auto-Configuration Servers and comprises therefore a Native Service Management being one of the Device Independent Services. This Native Service Management comprises furthermore a receiver part to receive device dependent service information of the Device Dependent Services and a splitter part to split the device dependent service information into different parts, and to transmit each part to a distinct Device Independent Service. Each distinct Device Independent Services being coupled via a common Management Agent being one of the Device Independent Services, to one of the plurality of Auto-Configuration Servers, whereby only the respective part of the Device Dependent Services that is associated to the device dependent service information that is forwarded to the associated Device Independent Service is configured by the associated Auto-configuration Server (FIGURE).

Configuration of device at a customer premises equipment and related method

The present invention relates to a method for establishing a path, having a certain QOS-class, between a modem and an edge node over a communications network. The communications network comprises an Access Multiplexer and an Ethernet aggregation network, where the Access Multiplexer couples the modem to the Ethernet aggregation network. The modem is coupled to the Access Multiplexer over at least one ATM connection. The modem forwards an ARP request, that is received from a host terminal, for an address of the edge Node over an ATM having a certain QOS-class. The Access Multiplexer intercepts the ARP request that is forwarded by the modem and assigns a chosen address for the edge node based on information on the edge node that is contained in the ARP request. Subsequently, the Access Multiplexer includes this chosen address in an ARP reply. The modem receives the ARP reply that contains the address of the edge node on the ATM connection having the certain QOS class and the modem retrieves the address and subsequently stores this address together with an identification of the connection.

Method for establishing a path, having a certain QOS-class and a related access multiplexer

Managing a plurality of Communication devices in an access network by successively establishing a temporary point-to-point layer two connection from a management server to each of the communication devices of the plurality of communication devices during a management phase.

In methods for setting up communications between digital-subscriber-line terminal modems () and internet-service-providers () via digital-subscriber-line-access-multiplexers () and forwarders () of asynchronous-transfer-mode-networks () further comprising dynamic-host-configuration-protocol-relay-agents (), first messages are sent from the terminal modems () to the agents () via the access multiplexers (), which first messages comprise incoming logical identifiers defining couplings () between the terminal modems () and the access multiplexers (), second messages are sent from the agents () to dynamic-host-configuration-protocol-servers () for receiving internet-protocol-addresses to be supplied to the terminal modems () via the agents (). To be able to locate the agents () outside the forwarders (), the agents () convert the first messages into the second messages at least by inserting outgoing logical identifiers defining couplings () between the access multiplexers () and the forwarders (), and the forwarders () are informed about relationships between the Internet-Protocol-addresses and the outgoing logical identifiers. The forwarders () then have sufficient knowlegde to find the right (part of the) access multiplexer ().

Method for setting up a connection

A method is disclosed for managing a home network which is connected by means of a home network gateway device to an external network, the home network comprising at least a first TR-069 compatible device and the external network having at least one auto configuration server (ACS) adapted and arranged for allowing automatic configuration of the TR-069 compatible device, characterized in that it comprises monitoring TR-069 sessions between the at least one TR-069 compatible device and the at least one ACS, in the home network gateway device.

Method, device and module for optimising the remote management of home network devices

The present invention relates to a Remote management method and related devices for use in a home network (HN) comprising a plurality of devices and a routing gateway. The Routing Gateway is coupled to each device of said plurality of devices. The Remote management method comprises the step of an Auto-Configuration Server managing either one of a dedicated device of said plurality of devices and the Routing Gateway or both at request. A further Auto-Configuration Server requesting the Auto-Configuration Server to access and configure the Routing Gateway for providing the further Auto-Configuration Server access to the Routing Gateway and subsequently the Auto-Configuration Server configuring the Routing Gateway to provide the further Auto-Configuration Server access to the Routing Gateway.

Remote management method, a related auto configuration server, a related further auto configuration server, a related routing gateway and a related device

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Christele Bouchat