Patent ID: 9584603
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: H04L,Y02D

Claim:
1. A customer premise equipment (CPE) device comprising: a network interface configured to communicatively couple to a service provider network; a communications unit in communication with a communications management system via the service provider network; at least one microprocessor; system memory comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium, having stored thereon a set of instructions executable by the at least one microprocessor, the set of instructions comprising: instructions for initiating a request for management from a communications management system in response to detecting an event; instructions for obtaining a private management IP address, wherein the private management IP address is assigned only for the CPE device; instructions for exchanging state information in a management session using the private management IP address; instructions for receiving a command from the communication management system, wherein the command is passed to the CPE device only through the private management IP address; and instructions for terminating a management session in response to receiving a termination command from the communications management system.