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AssigneeTime Warner Cable Enterprises LLC
InventorsAlbert William Straub, Miles Anton Johnson
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Methods and apparatus for provisioning and providing services to devices on a local network are described. The methods and apparatus allow for the provisioning of services to customer owned and managed devices on a local network on which another device, e.g., a first device, has already been authenticated and authorized to receive services corresponding to a customer account. After a first device on a local network is authenticated and associated with a customer account it detects the addition of new devices on the local network and assists in the registration of the new device by acting as an intermediary with a service provider device during the registration process. The security and registration established by the first device is leveraged allowing other devices on the network to be registered and authenticated for services corresponding to the same account as the first device without requiring user input of authentication and/or other information.
A communications method, the method comprising:
A communications system, comprising:
The method of claim 19, wherein the processor of the first customer premise device is further configured to:
A non-transitory computer readable medium including machine executable instructions which when executed by a processor of a first customer premise device, which has a security association with a network device, causes the processor to control the first customer premise device to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.