Patent ID: 9749285
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method of establishing a user account or adding a new device to the user account comprising: providing a first internet protocol (“IP”) device, a universal plug and play (“UPNP”) capable router, and a remote dynamic domain name server (“DDNS”) server; communicating, using the first IP device, with the UPNP capable router; the first IP device opening a first unused port of the UPNP capable router; establishing a first IP address for the UPNP capable router; providing a user account data packet and forwarding the user account data packet, using the UPNP capable router, to the remote DDNS server, wherein the user account data packet includes the first IP address for the UPNP capable router, a MAC address for the first IP device, a user name, and a password; the remote DDNS server using the user account data packet, the first IP address for the UPNP capable router, the MAC address for the first IP device, the user name, and the password to establish the user account with new account and new login information for a user at the remote DDNS server and establishing a URL for the first IP address enabling the user to access the first IP device from a displaced location; and the first IP device, using plug and play technology, automatically determining a presence of a second IP device, supervising the second IP device to resolve port conflicts within a network and within the UPNP capable router, updating the user account at the DDNS server with new port information, and configuring the UPNP capable router to close a selected port and automatically connect to the DDNS server to remove one or more other IP devices from the user account at the DDNS server.