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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2016
Centurylink Intellectual Property Llc, Denver, CO (US);
John T. Pugaczewski, Hugo, MN (US);
Soren J. Agard, Eagan, MN (US);
Daniel M. Keller, Plymouth, MN (US);
CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
Novel tools and techniques provide for implementing community wireless communications service. In some embodiments, a network gateway device might receive, from a user device via a customer gateway device, a first request for wireless access to a network. If it determines that the user device is unassociated with the customer associated with customer gateway, the network gateway might send a second request with an identifier of the user device to a WiFi server, which might generate and send a login user interface ('UI') to the user device. The user might send a response including a unique identifier, which the WiFi server might include in an access request to an authentication server. If authenticated by the authentication server, the WiFi server might send a care-of address ('COA') request to the network gateway, which assigns the COA to the user device and provides the user device with wireless access to the network.