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US 2008/0301446 A1Published application
Authorizing customer premise equipment into a network
AssigneeIntellon Corporation
InventorsLAWRENCE W. YONGE, III, Srinivas Katar, Manjunath Krishnam
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Abstract
Systems and methods for authorizing customer premise equipment into a network. A publicly available network membership key can be provided to enable initial connection to the network. Unique network membership keys associated with various customer premise equipment can be provided to enable service level access to the network and/or authorization into a sub-cell associated with the network.
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A computer implemented authorization method, comprising:
- providing a public network membership key associated with a network;
- receiving a connection request encrypted using the public network membership key from a device;
- permitting limited access to the network from the device based on the connection request being encrypted using the public network membership key;
- exchanging registration information from a user associated with the device;
- and
- providing a unique network membership key based on receipt of the registration information.
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An authorization system comprising:
- a network termination unit operable to receive a network connection request from a customer premise equipment device, the network termination unit being operable to provide limited access to the customer premise equipment device based upon the network connection request being encrypted using a public network membership key;
- a registration system operable to exchange registration information with a user associated with the customer premise equipment device;
- an authorization server operable provide a unique network membership key based upon receipt of customer registration information and to instruct the network termination unit and an associated headend station to provide limited access to the network based upon the public network membership key and to provide a service level access based upon the unique network membership key and a unique identifier associated with the customer premise equipment device.
An authorization method comprising:
- receiving a connection request encrypted using the public network membership key from a device, the connection request comprising a unique identifier associated with the device;
- determining that the device is authorized for service level access based upon the unique identifier;
- retrieving a device access key associated with the unique identifier;
- and
- providing a unique network membership key encrypted using the retrieved device access key.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.