US 12,088,615 B2
Method and system for automated protection against vulnerability and notification to service provider
Sudha Sundaram, Bangalore (IN); and Vinod S. Jatti, Bangalore Karnataka (IN)
Assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC, Horsham, PA (US)
Filed by ARRIS Enterprises LLC, Suwanee, GA (US)
Filed on Apr. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/229,148.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/046,588, filed on Jun. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0409438 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/1433 (2013.01) [H04L 63/0876 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); H04L 63/1425 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for automated utilization of vulnerability databases for consumer electronic (CE) devices, the method comprising:
deploying one or more customer-premise equipment or customer-provided equipment (CPE) broadband devices, each of the one or more broadband devices having one or more software components;
loading a database of software component on each of the one or more broadband devices, the database of software components having a functional use case associated with each software component;
periodically performing an automated reading of one or more published vulnerability databases, the one or more published vulnerability databases being external to the one or more broadband devices; and
comparing a list of vulnerabilities from the one or more published vulnerability databases against the database of software components for each of the one or more broadband devices.