Patent ID: 9264491
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of accessing content or services provided in a home-based network that includes a home-based network device belonging to a first subscriber, wherein the home-based network device is an edge node of a telecommunications network, the method comprising the steps of: assigning an address to the home-based network device, wherein the address is produced as a function of a public identity of the first subscriber associated with the home-based network device; registering the address of the home-based network device in an addressing space containing addressing information of other home-based network devices; and providing access to the home-based network device of the first subscriber to a second subscriber that is not associated with the home-based network device via another home based network device, wherein the another home based network device is another edge node of the telecommunications network and is associated with the second subscriber, such that the second subscriber finds the home-based network device including through a calculation of the address of the home-based network device using the function of the public identity of the first subscriber associated with the home-based network device and the initiation of a discovery procedure in the addressing space, wherein the discovery procedure includes receiving a request from the second subscriber that causes a search for the address of the home-based network device in a routing table stored in the another home-based network device, wherein the routing table comprises at least part of the addressing space and wherein if the address of the home-based network device being accessed is not stored in the routing table of the another home-based network device, then a next hop is found in the routing table along a route to the home-based network device being accessed by matching one digit at a time of the address of the home-based network device with an address of the next hop in the addressing space until the home-based network device is reached.