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Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2020
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Robert Roschewsk, Washington, NJ (US);

Srinandan Hullahalli, Frisco, TX (US);

Sunil Maloo, Edison, NJ (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/0826 (2013.01); H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 67/16 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02);
Abstract

An architecture for automatically preconditioning and certifying the deployment of network hardware prior to installation of network services. A method can comprise in response to receiving electrical power from a mains power supply, downloading specific executable instructions to facilitate execution of an operating system kernel by the processor; determining that the operating system kernel has attained an operational status; based on the determining, establishing a pre-boot execution network environment with a device of a group of devices; initializing a group of protocol services; and facilitating retrieval of configuration data from the device using the group of protocol services.


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