Patent ID: 8434096

Claim:
A method for managing a Customer Premises Equipment (CPE), the method comprising: receiving, by an Auto-Configuration Server (ACS), an instance creation response message sent by the CPE, the instance creation response message containing an instance number allocated randomly to a first instance object on the CPE; after receiving the instance creation response message, designating, by the ACS, a first designated instance number for the first instance object on the CPE; and sending a message to the CPE, the message carrying the first designated instance number for the first instance object, wherein the message is adapted to notify the CPE to take the first designated instance number as an instance number for the first instance object, wherein the message carrying the first designated instance number for the first instance object comprises an instance number modification message in TR-069 protocol, where the instance number allocated randomly to the first instance object by the CPE is contained for notifying the CPE to replace the instance number allocated randomly to the first instance object with the first designated instance number.