Ibahn General Holdings Corporation

Richard L Ehlers

Brett Thomas Molen

Nichol Fife Draper

John Thomas Welch

Wael R Midani

Jan M DeHoop

George B Norr

Darrell Richard Burns

Douglass Ervan Burns

Methods and apparatus are described for monitoring and configuring home networks for a variety of purposes such as, for example, facilitating secure communications between the home network and a remote network, and facilitating provision of a service by a service provider such as, for example, a cellular carrier.

Monitoring and reporting policy compliance of home networks

A network and associated methods and apparatus are described. The network includes a wireless access node which is operable to receive first packets from a plurality of wireless computing devices attempting to access the network. Each of the first packets corresponds to one of a plurality of traffic types. At least one of the traffic types corresponds to an encrypted wireless protocol. The wireless access node is configured to associate one of a plurality of identifiers with each of the first packets. Each of the plurality of identifiers corresponds to one of the plurality of traffic types. The wireless access node is further configured to transmit all first packets received from the wireless computing devices to a gateway on the network regardless of destination addresses associated with the first packets. The gateway is operable to determine that a particular one of the first packets from a first one of the wireless computing devices is directed to a second computing device on the network. The gateway is further operable to prevent the particular first packet from reaching the second computing device in response to determining that the particular first packet is directed to the second computing device.

Security for mobile devices in a wireless network

Techniques are described for detecting use of a network access node by multiple users to gain access to a network. Packets are received from a network device in communication with the network access node. The packets are evaluated with reference to a plurality of metrics. Each of the metrics is independently representative of an estimated number of user devices from which the packets originate.

Detection of multiple users of a network access node

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Park City, UT, United States of America

Richard L Ehlers