Patent ID: 8812628

Claim:
A method for a remote configuration of a device via a network by means of a remote auto configuration server (ACS), comprising: at least one of creating new data, modifying writeable data and deleting writeable data of the device, by the ACS, via a TR-069 CPE WAN management protocol using a plurality of sessions, each of the plurality of sessions consisting of a plurality of transactions, each of the plurality of transactions being a single request followed by a single response; at a level of the plurality of transactions, write-locking, by the ACS, at least the writeable data to be created, deleted or modified within each of the plurality of sessions, when writeable data has to be created, modified or deleted by the ACS, the write-locking preventing creation, deletion or modification of the writeable data by at least one other ACS; sending a call, by the ACS to the device, for setting current values of the writeable data upon the ACS obtaining the current values of the writeable data; and releasing the write-locked data, at the level of the plurality of transactions within each of the plurality of sessions, after at least one of a successful configuration and a failure.