Alcatel Lucent

Imec Vzw

Universiteit Antwerpen

Aloxy Nv

Jan Coppens

Christoph Stevens

Werner Mario Liekens

Willem Jozef Amaat Acke

Christele Bouchat

Pascal Justen

Pascal Marie Edouard Julien Justen

Willem Acke

Sven Van Den Bosch

Maarten Weyn

Pascale Justen

Werner Liekens

Christophe Stevens

Christele c/o Alcatel-Lucent Bell NV Bouchat

Pascal c/o Alcatel-Lucent Bell NV Justen

Werner c/o Alcatel-Lucent Bell NV Liekens

Christoph c/o Alcatel-Lucent Bell NV Stevens

Willem c/o Alcatel-Lucent Bell NV Acke

A device is configured to monitor a state of a rotatable handle of a valve when the device is attached to the rotatable handle. The device comprises a vector magnetometer configured to measure a magnetic field. The device comprises a processing unit configured to obtain from the vector magnetometer measurements of the magnetic field when the handle is rotated; calculate a change in the state of the rotatable handle based on a difference between the measurements of the magnetic field; and report the change in the state.

Monitoring an operating state of a valve

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

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

A method for automatically configuring a device by means of an automatic configuration means adapted for automatically configuring the device by means of a remote management protocol (RMP), comprising setting up an RMP session between the device and the automatic configuration means is disclosed, wherein when during the RMP session at least one parameter value of the object model of the device is changed, the device communicates the changed parameter value(s) to the automatic configuration means after the initiation and before the termination of the RMP session.

Method for automatically configuring devices in telecommunication networks and devices for use with such methods

An embodiment of the method includes remote configuration of at least one apparatus using a configuration server to configure the apparatus in situ via a network, to which the apparatus and the configuration server are connected. The method includes exchanging information requests and inform messages between the configuration server and the apparatus. The method further includes prioritizing, at the configuration server, the requested information indicated by the at least one of information requests and inform messages. The method also includes sending, from the configuration server, the requested information indicated by the at least one of information requests and inform messages over the network to the apparatus.

Method for remote configuration of an apparatus via a network

A method is described for managing a communication between a server device and a customer device. The method comprises interchanging between the server device and the customer device one or more parameter messages that are comprising a parameter description for a parameter name. The parameter description does consist of an hierarchical tree-like structure of characters with each level separated by a predefined character (dot). The method further comprises a step of instantiating by an instantiating device of the customer device, an iterator associated to an index, for a next level of a parameter-sub-tree being part of the global parameter description, and a step of recalling an object array for the parameter-sub-tree with the next level having different values for its index starting with a predefined start-value and ending with a predefined end-value.

Method for managing a communication between a server device and a customer device

A method for improving the security of actions performed by Remote Procedure Calls RPC invoked during a TR-069 Remote Management Protocol session between an Auto-Configuration Server ACS and a Customer Premises Equipment CPE of a DSL telecommunication system. The TR-069 session comprises several RPC's executing actions on parameters of an object model and the method comprises the steps of If the transaction is not committed during a first TR-069 session, the CPE sends an Inform with an event code OpenSavePoint to the ACS during a next TR-069 session and the ACS may reply by including an additional field in the InformResponse to close the transaction. The SavePoint mechanism saves parameter values of the object model prior to any RPC by storing these parameter values at the CPE-side. The SavePoint mechanism may also save a history of the RPC's invoked during the transaction.

TR-069 savepoints

A system for automatically configuring a device which is compatible with the Technical Report TR-069 of the DSL Forum, said system comprising a first automatic configuration server compatible with the Technical Report TR-069 of the DSL Forum, which is adapted and arranged for communicating with said device and for automatically configuring at least part of the configurable parameters of said device, said device by means of the CPE WAN Management Protocol defined in Technical Report TR-069 of the DSL Forum, wherein said system further comprises a proxy server arranged between said device and said automatic configuration server.

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