System for restoring services provided by a residential gateway
AssigneeOrange
InventorsMohamed Boucadair, Christian Jacquenet
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A residential gateway, which acts, after detecting a fault including at least one service to which the gateway normally gives access not being accessible or the quality of at least one service to which it normally gives access being degraded: to search for at least one IP route, referred to as an “emergency route”, to a destination for data associated with the service, and, if the gateway finds such an emergency route, using it to provide the service. The residential gateway is applicable to domestic gateways and to business gateways.
Claims16
A residential gateway comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the processor configure the residential gateway to perform acts comprising:
- acting, after detecting a fault comprising at least one service to which said gateway normally gives access not being accessible or the quality of at least one service to which it normally gives access being degraded:
- to search for at least one IP route, referred to as an “emergency route”, to a destination for data associated with said service, said emergency route passing:
- via an IP interface of said residential gateway, referred to as an “emergency interface”, other than a connection between the residential gateway and its nominal network connection equipment;
- and
- via another communicating device, referred to as a “broadcasting device”, with which the residential gateway is suitable for setting up a network association;
- and
- to select such an emergency route in order to supply said service by using said broadcasting device as a relay;
- and
- detecting presence of said broadcasting device by listening for and recognizing at least one identifier, referred to as an “emergency identifier”, broadcast by said broadcasting device.
A service restoration method for restoring service, the method comprising:
- detecting a fault comprising at least one service to which a residential gateway normally gives access no longer being accessible or the quality of at least one service to which the residential gateway normally gives access being degraded;
- said gateway searching for at least one IP route, referred to as an “emergency route”, to a destination for data associated with said service, said emergency route passing:
- via an IP interface of said gateway, referred to as an “emergency interface”, other than a link between the gateway and its nominal network connection equipment;
- and
- via another communicating device, referred to as a “broadcasting device”, with which the residential gateway is suitable for setting up a network connection;
- and
- the residential gateway selecting such an emergency route to provide said service by using said broadcasting device as a relay;
- the residential gateway detecting presence of said broadcasting device by listening for and recognizing at least one identifier, referred to as an “emergency identifier”, broadcast by said broadcasting device.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer program code instructions stored thereon for executing a service restoration method when the instructions are executed by a processor of a residential gateway, wherein the method comprises:
- detecting a fault comprising at least one service to which the residential gateway normally gives access no longer being accessible or the quality of at least one service to which the residential gateway normally gives access being degraded;
- said gateway searching for at least one IP route, referred to as an “emergency route”, to a destination for data associated with said service, said emergency route passing:
- via an IP interface of said gateway, referred to as an “emergency interface”, other than a link between the gateway and its nominal network connection equipment;
- and
- via another communicating device, referred to as a “broadcasting device”, with which the residential gateway is suitable for setting up a network connection;
- and
- the residential gateway selecting such an emergency route to provide said service by using said broadcasting device as a relay;
- the residential gateway detecting presence of said broadcasting device by listening for and recognizing at least one identifier, referred to as an “emergency identifier”, broadcast by said broadcasting device.
(canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.