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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2019
Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd., Calgary, CA;
Peter S. Warrick, Calgary, CA;
David T. Ong, Calgary, CA;
Guest Tek interactive Entertainment Ltd., Calgary, CA;
Abstract
A server in a captive portal accepts a connection from a user device to the IP address of the server and receives a HTTP or HTTPS request over the connection. The connection may be a result of the user device being previously determined to be not logged in, and consequently provided the IP address of the server as a DNS resolved IP address, the user device thereafter caching the IP address of the server. The server responds with requested content if the target host of the request is a local host. If the target host is a remote destination, the server queries a login database to determine whether the user device is logged in. The server acts as a transparent proxy between the user device and the remote destination if the user device is logged in, else the server sends alternate content to the user device over the connection.