Patent ID: 9374267
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method, implemented by a network device, comprising: receiving, by the network device and over a broadband access circuit, layer 2 traffic from a plurality of access devices at a plurality of customer premises, providing, by the network device, dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) services for the one or more computing devices located at the customer premises, providing, by the network device, network address translation (NAT) services for the one or more computing devices located at the customer premises, maintaining, by the network device, state information, on a per-computing device basis, for the customer premises, providing, by the network device and based on the state information and a user switching use of a first computing device at the customer premises to a second computing device at the customer premises, continuity of services across the first computing device and the second computing device based on the state of the session.