Dynamic and interactive control of a residential gateway connected to a communication network

A system comprising:

• a communication network;
• a user's local network;
• and
• a residential gateway connected to the communication network for dynamic and interactive control of the gateway, a user account of the user being associated with the gateway and comprising a list of contact addresses declared by the user of the account comprising at least one contact address, wherein the gateway interfaces the user's local network to the communication network, wherein:
• the gateway comprises filters configured according to a filtering template configured with a list of suspicious events to filter incoming and outgoing streams entering and exiting the residential gateway respectively from and to the communication network,
• and, in case of the filters detecting a stream compliant with the filtering template, the gateway is adapted to trigger a sending of a notification to the at least one contact address and conditionally upon reception of a decision sent from the at least one contact address subsequent to the transmission of the notification, executing a corrective measure in respect of a configuration of the residential gateway to prevent a priori suspicious use of the gateway.

A residential gateway configured to be connected to a communication network comprising a server and configured to interface a user's local network with the communication network, a user account of the user being associated with the gateway and comprising a list of contact addresses declared by the user of the user account comprising at least one contact address, wherein the residential gateway comprises:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon which when executed by the processor configure the residential gateway to:
• filter with a filtering template configured with a list of suspicious events incoming streams and outgoing streams entering and exiting the gateway respectively from and to the communication network,
• send a notification to the server for relaying to the at least one contact address if at least one stream is compliant with the filtering template,
• receive from the server an action message describing at least one corrective action to be executed by said residential gateway conditionally upon the reception by the server of a decision sent from the at least one contact address subsequent to the sending of the notification, and
• execute the corrective action to prevent a priori suspicious use of the gateway.

A method of dynamic and interactive control of a residential gateway, which interfaces a user's local network, to a communication network, a user account of the user being associated with the gateway and comprising a list of addresses declared by the user of the account, wherein the method comprises:

• filtering incoming and outgoing streams entering and exiting the residential gateway respectively from and to the communication network so as to detect a stream compliant with a filtering template configured with a list of suspicious events;
• in case of detecting a stream compliant with the filtering template, triggering a sending of at least one notification to several contact addresses which are part of the list of declared addresses;
• and
• conditionally upon reception of a decision sent from at least one of the several contact addresses subsequent to the sending of the notification, executing a corrective measure in respect of a configuration of the residential gateway to prevent a priori suspicious use of the gateway.

A residential gateway configured to be connected to a communication network comprising a server and configured to interface a user's local network with the communication network, a of the user account being associated with the gateway and comprising a list of contact addresses declared by the user of the user account, wherein the residential gateway comprises:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon which when executed by the processor configure the residential gateway to:
• filter with a filtering template configured with a list of suspicious events incoming streams and outgoing streams entering and exiting the gateway respectively from and to the communication network,
• in case of at least one stream being compliant with the filtering template, send a notification to the server for relaying to several contact address of the list,
• receive from the server an action message describing at least one corrective action to be executed by said residential gateway conditionally upon reception by the server of a decision sent from at least one of the several contact addresses subsequent to the sending of the notification, and
• execute the corrective action to prevent a priori suspicious use of the gateway.