Abstract: Method for remote management of a home device (3), said method comprising: a connection step wherein the home device (3) connects to a remote walled garden home device management (WG_HDM) server (10); a pre-activation cycle wherein a pre-activation policy is run on the home device (3) from the WG_HDM server (10); a transfer step wherein the home device (3) is redirected by the WG_HDM server (10) to a remote public home device management (P_HDM) server (14); an activation cycle wherein an activation policy is run on the home device (3) from the P_HDM server (14).

Abstract: Method for remote management of a home device (3), said method comprising: a connection step wherein the home device (3) connects to a remote walled garden home device management (WG_HDM) server (10); a pre-activation cycle wherein a pre-activation policy is run on the home device (3) from the WG_HDM server (10); a transfer step wherein the home device (3) is redirected by the WG_HDM server (10) to a remote public home device management (P_HDM) server (14); an activation cycle wherein an activation policy is run on the home device (3) from the P_HDM server (14).

Abstract: Systems (1) for exchanging messages (10-13,40-55) between customer devices (2) such as customer premises equipment and servers (3) such as auto configuration servers at several layers comprising a first layer such as a hyper text transfer protocol layer and a second layer such as a simple object access protocol layer are made compliant to web services toolkits by, at the second layer, allowing the customer device (2) to be a requesting party only and the server (3) to be a responding party only, for so-called server method applications as well as for so-called customer device method applications. At the second layer, the server (3) is never a requesting party and the customer device (2) is never a responding party. As a result, the development of management appliances no longer needs to be done manually and the system (1) according to the invention can be used in combination with firewalls.