Patent ID: 11924172
Assignee: GRAPHIANT, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method in a provider customer premises equipment (CPE) for secure network communication, the method comprising:
transmitting a provider NHOP, from the provider CPE to a consumer CPE in a control plane, the provider NHOP being associated with at least one attribute of an NHOP, the at least one attribute of the NHOP being associated with an encryption key, available with the provider CPE, to establish a secure communication tunnel in a data plane, from the provider CPE to the consumer CPE;
transmitting a service definition as a control plane information over the control plane, from the provider CPE to the consumer CPE, the service definition being associated with a service, available with the provider CPE;
receiving a network address translation (NAT) IP request, from the consumer CPE; and
assigning, in response to the receiving, a network address translation (NAT) IP, to the consumer CPE, using at least one identifier of the service definition, wherein the NAT IP being associated with a service anchor point, of the consumer CPE, wherein a stateless service is instantiated on the consumer CPE using the NAT IP.