Patent ID: 7327684

Claim:
A method for providing operation, administration, and maintenance of customer premises equipment from a central office in a very high bit rate digital subscriber line system by transmitting and receiving a very high data rate digital subscriber line overhead control frame including an operation code, the method comprising the steps of: setting unique operation codes identically at the central office and the customer premises equipment, the unique operation codes prescribing a plurality of types of messages to be transmitted between the central office and the customer premises equipment for performing the operation, administration, and maintenance; and performing the operation, administration, and maintenance of the customer premises equipment by exchanging selected ones of the messages between the central office and the customer premises equipment in very high bit rate digital subscriber line overhead control frames, each of the very high bit rate digital subscriber line overhead control frames including an operation code selected from among the unique operation codes to prescribe a type of a corresponding message; wherein said step of performing the operation administration, and maintenance further comprises: confirming an idle state of the customer premises equipment by the central office by exchanging an idle state confirmation message between the central office and the customer premises equipment in the very high data rate digital subscriber line overhead control frames; and confirming information for the operation, administration, and maintenance of the customer premises equipment by the central office by exchanging a first message requesting the operation, administration, and maintenance information, and by exchanging a second message responding to the first message in the very high bit rate digital subscriber line overhead control frames by the central office and the customer premises equipment, the second message corresponding to a response message in response to the first message.