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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
May. 18, 2018
Time Warner Cable Enterprises Llc, St. Louis, MO (US);
Qiang Zhang, Mclean, VA (US);
Arun Manroa, Herndon, VA (US);
Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods of tracking authentication sessions performed between Wi-Fi-enabled devices and authentication servers via wireless access points in Wi-Fi networks that allow authentication messages to be easily correlated to determine the authentication sessions to which the authentication messages belong. The systems and methods employ a tracking tag that an authentication server can insert into each authentication message that it sends to a Wi-Fi-enabled device via a wireless access point in an authentication session. By having the wireless access point echo the same tracking tag in each subsequent authentication message that it forwards to the authentication server, and storing each authentication message with its tracking tag in a database, the authentication messages stored in the database can be correlated using their tracking tags to determine the authentication session to which the respective authentication messages belong, thereby facilitating subsequent troubleshooting of the authentication session in the event of an unexpected failure.