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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2007
Amir Ansari, Plano, TX (US);
George A. Cowgill, Farmersville, TX (US);
Leon E. Nicholls, Plano, TX (US);
Jude P. Ramayya, Wylie, TX (US);
Ramprakash Masina, Wylie, TX (US);
Alvin R. Mcquarters, Euless, TX (US);
Atousa Raissyan, Potomac, MD (US);
Robert A. Clavenna, Lucas, TX (US);
Amir Ansari, Plano, TX (US);
George A. Cowgill, Farmersville, TX (US);
Leon E. Nicholls, Plano, TX (US);
Jude P. Ramayya, Wylie, TX (US);
Ramprakash Masina, Wylie, TX (US);
Alvin R. McQuarters, Euless, TX (US);
Atousa Raissyan, Potomac, MD (US);
Robert A. Clavenna, Lucas, TX (US);
Prodea Systems, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
The disclosed examples of a multi-services gateway device () comprise application service programming () logically positioned on a user premises side of a logical network demarcation forming an edge of the wide area network at the user premises. The programming also defines a logical service provider-user demarcation between the user premises and the application service provider. The application service programming () resides on the service provider side of the service provider-user demarcation and only provides a logical application service interface across that demarcation to deliver an application service to an endpoint device. The logical service provider-user demarcation also provides a demarcation in accessibility to hardware resources () of the gateway device, whereby some hardware resources () of the gateway device are on the service provider side () of the logical service provider-user demarcation and are inaccessible to an endpoint device from the user side () o he logical service provider-user demarcation.