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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2009
James Fan, San Ramon, CA (US);
Lipton Chin-loy, Duluth, GA (US);
Richard Kuo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jennifer Lam, Fremont, CA (US);
Chandrasekaran Sundaramurthy, Holmdel, NJ (US);
James Fan, San Ramon, CA (US);
Lipton Chin-Loy, Duluth, GA (US);
Richard Kuo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jennifer Lam, Fremont, CA (US);
Chandrasekaran Sundaramurthy, Holmdel, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a gateway having a controller to transport media data between a service provider network and one or more end user devices associated with the gateway, and transmit connection signals to a second gateway for establishing a management channel between the gateway and the service provider network when an undesired condition is detected, where the management channel transports management data associated with the gateway to the second gateway for transport to the service provider network using a separate transport queue of the second gateway. Other embodiments are disclosed.