US 12,009,942 B2
Scalable provisioning of aggregation devices with differentiated features
Ajay G. Sriram, Lone Tree, CO (US); and Stephen Gionfriddo, Castle Rock, CO (US)
Assigned to Charter Communications Operating, LLC, St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed by Charter Communications Operating, LLC, St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed on Oct. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/977,133.
Prior Publication US 2024/0146573 A1, May 2, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 12/28 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 12/2898 (2013.01) [H04L 12/2858 (2013.01); H04L 12/2874 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
determining, by a policy controller executing on a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, that a first customer premises equipment (CPE) that provides external network access to a first local area network and that is communicatively coupled to a first aggregation device is to be dynamically provisioned with a first differentiated feature that is different from default features identified in a first boot configuration from which the first CPE obtains features during a boot phase of the first CPE;
identifying, by the policy controller, a first aggregation driver process of a plurality of aggregation driver processes that corresponds to the first aggregation device of a plurality of aggregation devices; and
sending, by the policy controller to the first aggregation driver process, a request to implement the first differentiated feature on the first aggregation device.