Network device management
OwnerRobert G. Marsico, Marilyn J. Marsico +2inventors
InventorsRobert G. Marsico, Marilyn J. Marsico, Carl A. Steen, Maxwell A. Marsico
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Abstract
A method is provided to dynamically interact with a plurality of enabled devices within a personal network. Individual ones of the devices are configured to interoperate with a service provider network and configure or alter services to individually identifiable devices.
Claims22
A network comprising:
- a plurality of network devices configured to have a common address identifying the network, and an uncommon address within the network where the uncommon address identifies particular network devices;
- a computer-readable medium configured to store a profile associated with the common address, each profile configured to include at least one record corresponding to at least one of the plurality of network devices, the record including the uncommon address associated with the at least one of the network devices;
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- logic configured to manage the network including changing the record to correlate services available to the network with particular network devices via the uncommon address.
A network device configured for communication with a network that includes a user managable database correlating identifiable communications to selected network devices, the network device comprising:
- a computer-readable medium configured to store an uncommon address uniquely identifying a network device on a network identifiable by a common address;
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- logic configured to format a signaling word including the uncommon address, and payload data representative of a change request to manage routing of subsequent communications directed generally to the network, to particular network devices.
A method of subscriber management of a network of devices comprising:
- receiving an inbound signaling word from a subscriber including management data corresponding to a network identifiable by a common address and corresponding to a network device identifiable by an uncommon address;
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- modifying a computer-readable medium to reflect desired services relative to the network device.
An article of manufacture embodied in a computer-readable medium for managing a network of identifiable devices, the article of manufacture comprising:
- first computer executable instructions for causing a computer to parse an incoming signaling word for indicia identifying a network and indicia identifying an individual device within the network;
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- second computer executable instructions for causing a computer to modify a record associated with the individual device based on payload data in the incoming signaling word, where the payload data is configured to alter services available to the individual device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.