Device-to-device communication among customer premise equipment devices

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8493987
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12906195

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A method of initializing, provisioning, and managing a cable modem and a customer premise equipment device includes sending a customized configuration file to the cable modem. The configuration file contains service provisioning information and further includes information indicative of a device-to-device communication configuration. A message is passed from the cable modem to the customer premise equipment device indicative of the device-to-device communication configuration. The customer premise equipment device is initialized for device-to-device communication with any other customer premise equipment devices in accordance with the device-to-device communication configuration indicated in the message, which relates to physical layer and data link layer communications among customer premise equipment devices. In this way, the customer premise equipment device knows how to communicate with other customer premise equipment devices, for example, at the same subscriber location.

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  • COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Siripunkaw, Pak Sicklerville, US 14 161
Weber, Emery J Denver, US 13 222

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