Address space mapping for managing alternative networks for high quality of service communications

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9929981-B2
Application number	US-201615292051-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 12, 2016
Priority date	May 8, 2015
Publication date	Mar 27, 2018
Grant date	Mar 27, 2018

Abstract

Methods and systems are provided. Exemplary methods may include: providing a first data packet to a first interface, the first data packet including a first address and being received from a computing device, the computing device being at a premises and coupled to a third interface, the first interface coupled to a first broadband connection received at the premises, the first broadband connection being coupled to a service using a first data network; determining at least one second data packet to be received at the first interface from the service is lost or delayed; supplying a second address to the computing device for communications with the service, in response to the determining; receiving from the computing device a third data packet including the second address; modifying the third data packet including replacing the second address with the first address; and giving the modified third data packet to a second interface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for managing alternative networks comprising:
receiving a first predetermined range of addresses including a first address;
receiving a second predetermined range of addresses including a second address;
providing the first address to a computing device;
providing a first data packet to a first interface, the first data packet including the first address and being received from the computing device, the first interface coupled to a first broadband connection received at a premises, the first broadband connection being coupled to a service outside the premises using a first data network;
receiving from the computing device a second data packet including the second address using a third interface, the third interface coupled to the computing device at the premises;
modifying the second data packet including replacing the second address with the first address;
sending the modified second data packet to a second interface, the second interface coupled to a second broadband connection received at the premises, the second broadband connection being coupled to the service outside the premises using a second data network and being different from the first broadband connection;
receiving from the service outside the premises a third data packet including the first address;
modifying the third data packet including replacing the first address with the second address when the third data packet is received from the second interface;
giving the modified third data packet to the third interface;
receiving from the computing device a fourth data packet including the first address; and
giving the fourth data packet to the first interface.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first predetermined range of addresses and the second predetermined range of addresses are received from the service outside the premises.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein an analog telephone is communicatively coupled to the computing device.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
monitoring an amount of data transferred associated with the second broadband connection; and
issuing at least one alert in response to the amount exceeding at least one predetermined threshold, the at least one predetermined threshold being associated with billing parameters associated with the second broadband connection.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
communicating with the service outside the premises using the first interface to establish communications through the second broadband connection, the communicating including at least one of a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message, SIP header, Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) parameter, Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) message, and Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) packet.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the first broadband connection is at least one of a leased T-carrier line, Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET), Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH), cable internet access, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), Broadband over power lines (BPL), Wi-Fi, WiMAX, mobile broadband, and satellite broadband;
the second broadband connection is at least one of a leased T-carrier line, Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET), Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH), cable internet access, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), Broadband over power lines (BPL), Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and mobile broadband; and
the third interface is coupled to a local data network, the local data network including at least one of a wired local area network (LAN), wireless LAN, and wireless communications using one or more of Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT), Bluetooth, and Bluetooth low energy.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the second broadband connection is associated with at least one of an alarm system, mobile device, network capable consumer device, and in-car Internet system located on or about the premises.

8. A system for managing alternative networks comprising:
a first interface coupled to a first broadband connection received at a premises, the first broadband connection being coupled to a service outside the premises using a first data network;
a second interface coupled to a second broadband connection received at the premises, the second broadband connection being coupled to the service outside the premises using a second data network and being different from the first broadband connection;
a third interface coupled to a computing device at the premises;
a processor coupled to the first, second, and third interfaces; and
a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to perform a method comprising:
receiving a first predetermined range of addresses including a first address;
receiving a second predetermined range of addresses including a second address;
providing the first address to the computing device;
providing a first data packet to the first interface, the first data packet including the first address and being received from the computing device;
receiving from the computing device a second data packet including the second address;
modifying the second data packet including replacing the second address with the first address;
sending the modified second data packet to the second interface;
receiving from the service outside the premises a third data packet including the first address;
modifying the third data packet including replacing the first address with the second address when the third data packet is received from the second interface;
giving the modified third data packet to the third interface;
receiving from the computing device a fourth data packet including the first address; and
giving the fourth data packet to the first interface.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the first predetermined range of addresses and the second predetermined range of addresses are received from the service outside the premises.

10. The system of claim 8 , further comprising:
an analog telephone communicatively coupled to the computing device, the computing device being integrated with the system.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the method further comprises:
monitoring an amount of data transferred associated with the second broadband connection; and
issuing at least one alert in response to the amount exceeding at least one predetermined threshold, the at least one predetermined threshold being associated with billing parameters associated with the second broadband connection.

12. The system of claim 8 , wherein the method further comprises:
communicating with the service outside the premises using the first interface to establish communications through the second broadband connection, the communicating including at least one of a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message, SIP header, Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) parameter, Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) message, and Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) packet.

13. The system of claim 8 , wherein:
the first broadband connection is at least one of a leased T-carrier line, Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET), Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH), cable internet access, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), Broadband over power lines (BPL), Wi-Fi, WiMAX, mobile broadband, and satellite broadband;
the second broadband connection is at least one of a leased T-carrier line, Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET), Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH), cable internet access, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), Broadband over power lines (BPL), Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and m

Assignees

• Ooma Inc

Inventors

• Gillon William M
• Lei Hai
• Farrand Tobin E
• Bryan David A

Classifications

• H04L69/40

  for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection (management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06) · CPC title

• H04L61/106

  across networks, e.g. mapping telephone numbers to data network addresses · CPC title

• H04L43/16

  Threshold monitoring · CPC title

• H04L45/74

  Address processing for routing · CPC title

• H04L43/0829

  Packet loss · CPC title