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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2016
Datto, Inc., Norwalk, CT (US);
Austin McChord, Norwalk, CT (US);
Evan Anthony Buther, Norwalk, CT (US);
Daniel Charles Fuhry, Weston, CT (US);
Robert John Gibbons, Jr., Norwalk, CT (US);
William Moon, Penfield, NY (US);
Datto, Inc., Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
Web-enabled routers are remotely and securely administered in a centralized fashion. A router receives a configuration profile from a dedicated web domain that maintains a repository of configuration profiles for multiple routers. The web domain also provides a web portal for customized generation of new configuration profiles based on stored profiles. When a new profile is deployed to and instantiated on a router, the router transmits a 'heartbeat' to ensure that it can maintain connectivity with the web domain; if not, the router reverts to a previous 'failover' configuration profile that ensures connectivity to the web domain. A router also may be equipped with both a wired and a wireless (e.g., a 3G, 4G, or 4G LTE) WAN communication interface. In the event of a wired connectivity issue, the router controls the wireless WAN interface to prioritize traffic for the router heartbeat and data backup/restore operations between a computer network for which the router serves as a gateway and the web domain.