Patent ID: 8443064
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of configuring and storing traffic information from a customer internet connection modem, the method comprising: providing a remote authority, contactable through the internet by a customer internet connection modem, providing a configuration service, contactable through the internet by the customer internet connection modem, the configuration service maintaining customer configuration information for the customer internet connection modem and the remote authority storing traffic information on operation of the customer internet connection modem, the customer configuration information for the customer internet connection modem including a scheduler and instructions to store the traffic information within the customer internet connection modem, providing the customer internet connection modem within a customer's premises, the customer internet connection modem containing instructions in read only memory (ROM), which on turning power ON directs the customer internet connection modem to contact only the remote authority via an internet connection with an identifier of the customer internet connection modem, detecting at the remote authority a data stream from the customer internet connection modem and looking up the identity of the customer internet connection modem from this data stream; downloading the customer configuration information for the customer internet connection modem and storing the downloaded customer configuration information in random access memory (RAM) in the customer internet connection modem, connecting the customer internet connection modem to the internet using the downloaded customer configuration information, allowing alteration of the customer configuration information only by downloading updated customer configuration information from the remote authority, providing from the customer internet connection modem to the remote authority the traffic information at the customer internet connection modem, the traffic information being transferred from the customer internet connection modem in accordance with the scheduler stored in the RAM of the customer internet connection modem, wherein the customer internet connection modem loses all of the customer configuration information stored in the RAM on loss of power, wherein the traffic information is available to the customer internet connection modem from the remote authority, and wherein changes in the customer configuration information at the configuration service may be downloaded by the customer internet connection modem.