Patent ID: 9602342
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: generating a network device identifier (ID) by appending a media access control address of a network device to an identifier of a geographic zone where the network device is located; assigning the network device ID to a set of provisioning instructions comprising an internet protocol address; receiving, by a provisioning device and from the network device, a provisioning request comprising the network device ID; determining, by the provisioning device, the geographic zone where the network device is located based on the network device ID; transmitting, by the provisioning device and to a database corresponding with the geographic zone, a secondary provisioning request corresponding with the geographic zone; receiving, by the provisioning device and from the database corresponding with the geographic zone, the set of provisioning instructions; and transmitting, by the provisioning device and to the network device, the set of provisioning instructions.