Patent ID: 8019846

Claim:
A method for remote management of a home device ( 3 ), said method comprising: a connection step wherein the home device ( 3 ) connects to a remote walled garden home device management (WG_HDM) server ( 10 ) over a wide-area network; a pre-activation cycle wherein a pre-activation policy is run on the home device ( 3 ) from the WG_HDM server ( 10 ), wherein the WG HDM server retrieves or generates home device activation parameters including correct point-to-point protocol (PPP) and HTTP credentials and uniform resource locator (URL) of the P HDM server and provisions the home device with the home device activation parameters, said WG_HDM server connected to said home device over said wide-area-network; a transfer step wherein the home device ( 3 ) is redirected by the WG_HDM server ( 10 ) to a remote public home device management (P_HDM) server ( 14 ), wherein the home device connects to a broadband remote access server (BRAS) using the correct PPP credentials and the BRAS directs the home device to the P HDM server based on the correct P HDM URL, said P_HDM server connected to said home device by said wide-area network; an activation cycle wherein an activation policy is run on the home device ( 3 ) from the P_HDM server ( 14 ).