Alcatel Lucent

Willem Jozef Amaat Acke

Christoph Stevens

Werner Mario Liekens

Jan Coppens

Pascal Marie Edouard Julien Justen

Christele Bouchat

Danny De Vleeschauwer

Pascal Justen

Tom Van Leeuwen

Luc Vermoesen

Jourik De Loof

Heico Heikens

Bruno Van Bogaert

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 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 application describes a Qos module for use in a home network that comprises a plurality of devices and a home gateway. The home gateway is enabled to receive a multicast stream and to forward the multicast stream to at least one of the devices under control of a multicast proxy module. The Qos module further comprises the multicast proxy module for also sending, upon reception of a multicast join message from one of the devices for joining the multicast stream, a Quality of Service request. The Quality of Service request comprising an address of the home gateway and an address of said device. The Qos module further comprises a unicast Quality of Service control module for reception of the Quality of Service request and for sending a unicast Quality of Service event message in order to request thereby provision of Quality of Service for the multicast stream when being forwarded from the home gateway to the device.

Multicast quality of service module and method

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

The network unit includes a signaling unit and a video transmitting unit. The signaling unit is configured to receive a request from a decoding device requesting transmission of the video channel. The video transmitting unit is configured to transmit the video channel towards the decoding device, initially as a dedicated multimedia stream dedicatedly supplied to the decoding device and including an anchor frame as a first transmitted video frame, and further in time as a common multimedia stream commonly supplied to a plurality of decoding devices. The video transmitting unit is further configured to transmit the video channel within the dedicated multimedia stream having an earlier time frame with respect to transmission of the video channel within the common multimedia stream, and the video channel is to be initially played at an averagely slower motion speed than the nominal motion speed that the common multimedia stream is to be played.

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Rijmenam, Belgium

Willem Jozef Amaat Acke