Patent ID: 7187678

Claim:
A computer readable medium for storing a computer program that associates a switched virtual circuit (SVC) connection request in a high speed data network with a network subscriber, the subscriber accessing the high speed data network from a remote access port, which is different from an initial access port of the subscriber, the computer readable medium comprising: a receiving code segment that receives an ATM SETUP signaling protocol message requesting the SVC connection from the subscriber at the remote access port, the signaling protocol message comprising a plurality of fields, at least one field of the plurality of fields being modified to include an address of the remote access port; an authentication code segment that determines whether the signaling protocol message contains authentication data to authenticate the subscriber; an associating code segment that associates the SVC connection request with data from an account corresponding to the subscriber when the subscriber is authenticated; and a registering code segment that retrieves the address of the remote access port from the at least one field of the ATM SETUP signaling protocol message and registers the address of the remote access port in the high speed data network in association with the subscriber account when the subscriber is authenticated.