US 12,463,864 B2
Auto-provisioning for customer premises equipment (CPE) downstream of a cellular modem
David J. Mindel, Lansdale, PA (US); and Dan Frey, Front Royal, VA (US)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/160,499.
Prior Publication US 2024/0259260 A1, Aug. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 41/0806 (2022.01); H04L 41/5006 (2022.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 41/0806 (2013.01) [H04L 41/5006 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
querying, by a network appliance, a modem of the network appliance for information associated with each of a plurality of network slices available to the network appliance, the plurality of network slices including a 4G network slice and a 5G network slice;
generating, by the network appliance, configuration information for the plurality of network slices based on the information queried from the modem;
converting, by the network appliance, the configuration information into a standards-based format that is understandable by a network management system that manages the network appliance to yield a set of configuration parameters for the network appliance; and
sending, by the network appliance the configuration parameters to the network management system for enabling provisioning of the network appliance with the configuration parameters.