113 results about "Customer-premises equipment" patented technology

Disclosed are various embodiments that extend customer premises networks onto a cloud provider network. In one embodiment, a layer-3 virtual private network is established between a tunneling agent and a virtual private network server on a cloud provider network. The tunneling agent is executed on an edge customer premises equipment (CPE) device on a customer premises network. A layer-2 virtual interface is established for an edge application on the cloud provider network using a tunnel to encapsulate layer-2 traffic between the customer premises network and the edge application over the layer-3 virtual private network.

The invention relates to the technical field of wireless communication and terminal network access control, and discloses a CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) signal adaptive enhancement and link switching method and a CPE signal adaptive enhancement and link switching system. According to the method, combined characteristics reflecting short-time quality drop amplitude, error code burst degree, time delay bursting degree and apparent strength level can be included, so that the shielding shadow and multipath illusion can be distinguished in a scene in which the shielding and strong reflection of the steel structure coexist, and the multi-path illusion can be distinguished on the premise of not depending on multi-source data. A small amount of key link observation data is organized into fingerprint representation with scene identification capability, and a basis is provided for subsequent enhancement and switching control. Therefore, the link shadow fingerprint is introduced, so that the link control process has the capability of identifying the special phenomenon that the apparent signal is strong but the actual error code is burst, and the switching decision and the enhanced control form collaborative management, thereby reducing the error switching, reducing the switching jitter and improving the service continuity.

A device may include a processor configured to collect first usage data from a first WI-FI router in a first customer premises equipment (CPE) network; collect second usage data from a second WI-FI router in a second CPE network; and determine that a collision avoidance plan between the first WI-FI router and the second WI-FI router is needed. The processor may be further configured to generate a first collision avoidance plan for the first WI-FI router and a second collision avoidance plan for the second WI-FI router based on the first usage data and the second usage data. The processor may be further configured to provide the first generated collision avoidance plan to the first WI-FI router and the second collision avoidance plan to the second WI-FI router.

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An example method for performing application recognition in the cloud to support application-aware functionality on customer premises equipment includes detecting a data flow associated with a customer premises equipment device, identifying an application associated with the data flow, generating a mapping that maps the application to an identifier, and providing the mapping to the customer premises equipment device.

The invention discloses a ship-shore communication method and system. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring position information of ship-borne CPE (Customer Premise Equipment), and acquiring base station information of a plurality of shore-based base stations; determining candidate shore-based base stations capable of providing communication service for the ship-borne CPE from a plurality of shore-based base stations based on the position information of the ship-borne CPE and the information of the plurality of base stations; performing signal measurement on the service cells corresponding to the candidate shore-based base stations, and determining candidate service cells meeting a preset communication service requirement from the plurality of service cells based on a signal measurement result; and sequentially trying to access each candidate service cell, and when any candidate service cell is successfully accessed, taking the successfully accessed candidate service cell as a target service cell, and providing communication service for the shipborne base station system and a terminal hung under the shipborne base station system based on the target service cell. The technical problems that a traditional ship-shore communication scheme lacks stability and reliability, and the cost is too high when satellite communication is used are solved.

The invention discloses an intelligent scheduling and control method for heterogeneous equipment based on cloud edge collaboration. The method comprises the following steps: S1, constructing a multi-stage redundancy control architecture and generating edge control topological structure description; s2, deploying a software-defined CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) component and loading a communication protocol template library; s3, identifying communication protocols and link states, and generating a communication protocol mapping relation table and a communication topological structure chart; s4, collecting state data of the PLC and the I / O module, and establishing a state synchronous cache; s5, executing a master control scheduling strategy and performing state mirror image synchronization to generate a master control state mapping table and a switching judgment result; s6, executing an I / O redundant channel selection and arbitration mechanism, and generating a signal channel mapping table and a control strategy; and S7, calling the CPE component to complete link lossless switching and outputting reconstruction configuration. The method has the advantages of being high in control reliability, high in protocol compatibility, flexible in link switching and the like.

A system (102) and a method (300) for supporting a plurality of services in a network (104) is disclosed. A user plane function (UPF) (214) receives a request message from a first network element (204) (e.g., Multiple Dwelling Unit (MDU)) connected with a second network element (206) (e.g., Customer Premises Equipment (CPE)) and communicates a session report request towards a session management function (SME) (216). The SME (216) communicates an authorization request towards a policy control function (PCF) (218). Upon receiving an authorization response from the PCF (218), the SMF (216) triggers a session modification procedure based on the received authorization response. At least one tag associated with at least one service is assigned to the first network element based on the triggered session modification procedure and establishes at least one session between the first network element and the network.

An improved multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) solution is disclosed for customer premises equipment (CPE) in which a set of wireless interfaces (e.g., cellular and WiFi), each with a plurality of antenna ports for MIMO operation, couple to an antenna switch fabric, which is then coupled to a set of antennas. In some examples, the antennas are distributed for maximum isolation and separation in order to improve MIMO channel separation, for example in an approximately spherical arrangement. The antenna switch fabric is instructed to select the optimal antennas based on signal parameter measurements, in order to improve overall performance. Selection of uplink (transmit) versus downlink (receive) antenna sets may be independent and based on different signal parameter measurements (e.g., for frequency division duplexing, FDD).

In one aspect, a method includes determining network information for one or more network slices of a wireless network, the network information for the one or more network slices being available at a modem associated with a network appliance and interfacing with the wireless network, converting the network information into a standards-based format, determining configuration parameters for the one or more network slices using the network information, and configuring the network appliance using the configuration parameters.

A POTS alternative including an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), a router, a modbus converter for connecting the router to the UPS to monitor conditions of the UPS, a gateway for providing connections to one or more POTS-based customer premises equipment through the modbus converter to the router and directly to the router. The router includes a plurality of SIM cards, each SIM card for connecting to one cellular service provider among a plurality of cellular service providers. The router automatically connecting to a cellular service provider among the plurality of cellular service providers providing the strongest cellular signal and switching from the cellular service provider to a different cellular service providers when the different cellular service provider provides a stronger cellular signal when the cellular service provider no longer provides the strongest cellular signal.

An example method for controlling customer premises equipment via the cloud or network edge to support advanced network functionality includes detecting a data flow associated with a customer premises equipment device, identifying an application associated with the data flow, monitoring a performance of the application, determining an action to be taken by the customer premises equipment device to optimize the performance of the application, and sending an instruction to the customer premises equipment device to take the action.

Disclosed are various embodiments that extend customer premises networks onto a cloud provider network. In one embodiment, a layer-3 virtual private network is established between a tunneling agent and a virtual private network server on a cloud provider network. The tunneling agent is executed on an edge customer premises equipment (CPE) device on a customer premises network. A layer-2 virtual interface is established for an edge application on the cloud provider network using a tunnel to encapsulate layer-2 traffic between the customer premises network and the edge application over the layer-3 virtual private network.

A method for pre-fetching and storing media locally on customer premises equipment includes predicting, using a machine learning model that analyzes historical video consumption behavior in a home broadband network, a video content that is likely to be consumed by a user of the home broadband network during a next period of peak demand on a communication service provider network, scheduling a download of the video content to a local storage during a next period of predicted non-peak demand in a cell of the communication service provider network that serves the home broadband network, and downloading, in response to determining that the next period of predicted non-peak demand has occurred, the video content to the local storage.

The invention provides a communication method, terminal equipment and network equipment. The method comprises the following steps that: before communication is carried out through a first sidewalk resource, terminal equipment sends a first CPE (Customer Premise Equipment); wherein the length of the first CPE is a first length. Before using the first sidewalk communication resource for communication, the terminal device may occupy a channel through the first CPE until the terminal device may perform sidewalk communication through the first sidewalk resource. For example, through the first CPE, other communication equipment can be prevented from occupying a channel where the terminal equipment has successful LBT, so that the terminal equipment can normally perform sidewalk communication.

Systems and methods are provided for automatically provisioning customer-specific credentials on a gateway device, Customer Premises Equipment (CPE), or the like. A method, according to one implementation, includes the step of determining when a remote gateway device is connected to a Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) server via a network. The remote gateway device is intended to enable one or more user devices in a Local Area Network (LAN) to access the Internet via the network and PPPoE server. The method also includes the step of automatically configuring customer-specific PPPoE credentials on the remote gateway device to thereby enable the PPPoE server to authenticate the remote gateway device and grant Internet access.

Systems, methods, and devices for delivering configuration files and firmware updates to Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) using a Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) to Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) proxy service are disclosed. Embodiment methods may include the TFTP-to-HTTPS proxy service listening on a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port for incoming TFTP requests, receiving a TFTP request from a CPE device, translating the TFTP request into an HTTPS request, sending the translated HTTPS request to a backend server, receiving an HTTPS response, translating the HTTPS response into a TFTP response, and sending the TFTP data packets to the CPE device. Some embodiments may include storing the translated file in the cache, checking the cache for a requested file before requesting the file from the backend server, and sending the cached file to the requesting CPE device when it is stored in the cache.

A processing system may obtain network performance data sets associated with a video communication session from a customer premises equipment, the network performance data sets including data sets for measurements of video uplink and downlink data rates. The processing system may apply at least one of the network performance data sets to at least one rule set implemented by the processing system to obtain a decision output indicative of whether an occurrence of: an uplink or downlink video freeze is detected. The processing system may detect the at least one of the uplink video freeze or the downlink video freeze in accordance with the decision output. The processing system may then perform at least one remedial action in response to the detecting of at least one of: the uplink video freeze or the downlink video freeze.

Systems and methods for troubleshooting and managing performance of network devices are disclosed. A system includes a router. The router monitors data packets between a Wide Area Network (WAN) and the customer premise equipment during an upstream transmission and a downstream transmission and determines packet parameters and device parameters associated with the plurality of customer premise equipment. Further, the router identifies a customer premise equipment and characteristics and determines status information and performance information of the identified customer premise equipment based on the determined plurality of characteristics and the predefined device match rules. Furthermore, the router determines issues of the identified customer premise equipment and generates recommendations including troubleshooting solutions for the determined issues. The router transmits the recommendations to at least one of user devices and a server managing the router.

The disclosure is directed to, among other things, systems and methods for troubleshooting equipment installations using machine learning. Particularly, the systems and methods described herein may be used to validate an installation of one or more devices (which may be referred to as “customer premises equipment (CPE)” herein as well) at a given location, such as a customer's home or a commercial establishment. As one non-limiting example, the one or more devices may be associated with a fiber optical network, and may include a modem and / or an optical network terminal (ONT). However, the one or more devices may include any other types of devices associated with any other types of networks as well.

This application discloses a voice service control method, device, storage medium, and program product. The method is applied to a customer premises equipment, which includes a first access interface and a second access interface. The first access interface is used to access a wired network as an access point for a first path, and the second access interface is used to access a wireless network as an access point for a second path. The method includes: controlling voice service data to be transmitted via the first access interface, so that the voice service data is transmitted to the voice platform through the first path; detecting the connectivity of the first path; and when an abnormality in the connectivity of the first path is detected, controlling the voice service data to switch to transmission via the second access interface, so that the voice service data is transmitted to the voice platform through the second path. Implementing the technical solution of this application can reduce the probability of voice service interruption and improve the reliability of voice service data transmission.

The application relates to the technical field of communication, and provides a data transmission method and device based on backup routing, equipment and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: when detecting a request data packet sent by a user terminal (UE) and having a destination address of a sunk user plane function (UPF), routing and forwarding the request data packet of the UE between the UE and the sunk UPF according to a preset main routing; taking a customer premises equipment (CPE) as an access point, establishing a backup routing of the request data packet of the UE between the UE and the sunk UPF through a shared UPF; and when detecting a main routing failure, routing and forwarding the request data packet of the UE between the UE and the sunk UPF according the backup routing. The data transmission method based on the backup routing provided by the application can restore the interrupted service through the backup routing when the main routing fails, ensures the normal operation of the service, and reduces the processing cost of the service interruption failure.

The technology is directed to activating a wireless modem within a Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) to initiate signal detection. The wireless modem includes one or more Rydberg sensors containing one or more transmit antennas having one or more Rydberg atoms. The Rydberg atom sensors can be used to detect electromagnetic fields of downlink data transmissions from a base station while avoiding electric field distortion from one or more metallic members of the transmit antennas, impedance from the metallic members, and / or insertion loss from a duplexer of the CPE. The transmit antennas transmit uplink data transmissions to the base station for a service provided to a subscriber associated with the CPE. The CPE routes both the downlink data transmissions and the uplink data transmissions for the service provided to the subscriber.

The present disclosure relates to a system (108) and a method (400) for processing data traffic in a fixed wireless access network. The method (400) includes receiving, by a User Plane Function (UPF) (218), data traffic from Home Gateways (HGWs) (212) and a Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) (214) over one or more network interfaces. The method (400) includes determining, by the UPF (218), a type of the received data traffic by monitoring the reception of data traffic on at least one network interface. The type of the received data traffic includes an uplink data traffic or a downlink data traffic. The method (400) includes processing, by the UPF (218), the received data traffic in accordance with the determined type of the received data traffic. The processing includes executing a set of operative steps for the uplink data traffic and a set of operative steps for the downlink data traffic.

A wireless customer premises equipment (CPE) associated with a local area network (LAN) is operable to communicate with one or more upstream devices in a wired WAN mode and a cellular WAN mode. The wireless CPE may detect a power-saving trigger. In response, the wireless CPE may transition from the wired WAN mode to the cellular WAN mode and may implement a first action to reduce an amount of power used by the wireless CPE.

A method, system, and computer readable storage device detect and localize ingress noise within a customer premises equipment network. Data associated with customer premises equipment activities within a customer premises equipment network is collected. A machine learning engine is trained how to detect ingress data being generated within customer premises equipment nodes of the customer premises equipment network. The machine learning engine then detects customer premises equipment nodes that are generating ingress noise data above a first predetermined level. The machine learning engine then identifies locations of ingress data generation within the detected nodes and further identifies those identified ingress data generation locations that are generating ingress data exceeding a second predetermined level. The method, system, and computer readable storage device can further reduce ingress data generation from the detected identified locations.

Disclosed is a method (400) for optimizing placement of a Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) within a user's environment. The method comprises obtaining information including a current location of a user device (140) and network and signal parameters associated with the user device, and calculating an ECGI value of a node serving the user device based on the obtained information. Thereafter, a request including the obtained information and the ECGI value is transmitted to an application server for validating whether the current location of the user device and the ECGI value exist in a master database, and node parameters associated with the node is received in response to the transmitted request. Furthermore, network test values associated with the node is calculated based on the node parameters for placing the CPE at optimal location, and suggestions for placing the CPE at the optimal location is displayed based on the network test values.

The utility model provides vehicle-mounted customer premises equipment and terminal equipment, and relates to the field of Internet of Things. The vehicle-mounted customer premises equipment comprises a shell, an electronic component, a cooling fin device and a self-start-stop cooling fan. The radiating fin device comprises a hot-end radiator and a cold-end radiator which are in heat-conducting connection; the hot end radiator and the electronic component are both located in the shell, and the hot end radiator is attached to a power device of the electronic component; the cold end radiator and the self-start-stop cooling fan are both located outside the shell, and the cold end radiator and the self-start-stop cooling fan are both used for being installed in an air flowing area of the internal combustion locomotive; wherein the air flowing area refers to an area where continuous air flowing is generated on the internal combustion locomotive when the internal combustion locomotive runs; the self-start-stop cooling fan is used for self-start-stop according to the air speed of the air flowing area. According to the vehicle-mounted customer premises equipment, the electric energy consumption of the self-start-stop cooling fan is reduced, and then the electric energy consumption of an internal combustion locomotive is reduced.

An end user premises device is provided that includes a memory, one or more transceivers, and one or more processors. The one or more transceivers are configured to communicate with one or more stations in a network and a client device. The one or more processors are configured to receive a first user request for data from the client device using the one or more transceivers, determine a first point in time for retrieving the data based on an amount of charge in batteries of the one or more stations in the network, retrieve, at the first point in time, the data from a remote server via the network using the one or more transceivers, store the data in the memory, and in response to a second user request, transmit the data to the client device using the one or more transceivers.

Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing call center-based automated interface with network switches for Internet service diagnostics and provisioning. In various embodiments, in response to receiving a request by a call center user to access an Internet service customer account, a computing system may access information regarding the Internet service customer account that is stored in a database, may identify a network switch that is configured to provide Internet service to customer premises equipment (“CPE”) disposed at a customer premises associated with the customer, based at least in part on the accessed information, and may autonomously access, from other databases, information associated with the Internet service customer account and with a network profile. The computing system may integrate the accessed information, may generate and present a user interface (“UI”) displaying the accessed information, and may autonomously initiate one or more diagnosis and repair procedures.