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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Adam R. Dyba, Redmond, WA (US);
Piyush Goyal, Redmond, WA (US);
James Christopher Gray, Redmond, WA (US);
Shai Guday, Redmond, WA (US);
Thomas W. Kuehnel, Seattle, WA (US);
Triptpal Singh Lamba, Bothell, WA (US);
David Neil MacDonald, Seattle, WA (US);
Darya Mazandarany, Kirkland, WA (US);
Saumaya Sharma, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
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.