Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Adam R Dyba

Thomas W Kuehnel

Shai Guday

Adam Sapek

James Christopher Gray

David Neil MacDonald

Triptpal Singh Lamba

Piyush Goyal

Saumaya Sharma

Darya Mazandarany

David Neil Macdonald

Embodiments provision captive portals on network access points (NAPs). In response to a request from a NAP owner, a cloud service associates a NAP with the NAP owner and provides a control channel for configuring the NAP. The NAP owner inputs configuration settings describing the captive portal. The cloud service processes the configuration settings to generate configuration data. The cloud service transmits the configuration data to the NAP. The NAP applies the configuration data to configure the NAP. Some embodiments configure Wi-Fi hotspots with captive portals for gated access to the Internet.

Configuring captive portals with a cloud service

Configurable selection of communication interfaces on a multi-homed computing device. Application programs executing on the computing device define preferences, policies, and/or restrictions for use of the various communication interfaces. Responsive to a request from one of the application programs to communicate with a destination computing device, a list of the communication interfaces is created based on the preferences defined by the application program. The application program iteratively attempts to establish a connection to the destination computing device using each of the communication interfaces on the list.

Communication interface selection on multi-homed devices

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