Patent ID: 8000345

Claim:
A method for remotely managing a non-compliant Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) residing at an edge of a Local Area Network (LAN), comprising the steps of: providing a proxy agent that resides on an entity in the LAN, which proxy agent is receiving from a Wide Area Network (WAN) configuration device a CPE WAN Management Protocol (CWMP) request message, which request message passes through the non-compliant CPE; converting the request message to a first protocol that is used by the non-compliant CPE; communicating the converted request message upstream toward the non-compliant CPE; receiving a response from the non-compliant CPE; converting the response from the first protocol to the CWMP; sending the converted response upstream toward the WAN configuration device, wherein the non-compliant CPE is non-compliant in accordance with the CWMP, and managing the non-compliant CPE from the WAN configuration device.