Patent ID: 8233486

Claim:
A computing device-implemented method, comprising: receiving, by the computing device, an activation inform message associated with a local area network device; verifying, by the computing device, the local area network device and a gateway device associated with the local area network device based on an Internet protocol address included in the activation inform message; selecting, by the computing device, a new connection request port forwarding entry from a plurality of port forwarding entries based on the activation inform message; mapping, by the computing device, one or more fields of the new connection request port forwarding entry to a port mapping entry of the gateway device, the new connection request port forwarding entry including a first field to store an Internet protocol address of the computing device, a second field to store a connection request port assigned to the gateway device for the local area network device, a third field to store a private Internet protocol address of the local area network device, and a fourth field to store a default connection request port of the local area network device; performing, by the computing device, a set parameter value operation to add the new connection request port forwarding entry in the gateway device when the local area network device and the gateway device are verified; sending, by the computing device, a connection request operation, to be forwarded by the gateway device, to the local area network device, based on the new connection request port forwarding entry; receiving a remote management instruction; determining whether to use port forwarding or a Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol Through Network Address Translators approach based on the remote management instruction; and using one of the port forwarding or the Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol Through Network Address Translators approach for remote management of the local area network device based on the determination.