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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2019
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Paul R. Hancock, Tower Lakes, IL (US);
Stuart Steele, Austin, TX (US);
Charles Scott, Austin, TX (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by an authentication server, first credentials from a mobile application installed on a device. The first credentials include information associated with the device and information associated with a user of the device. The method also includes automatically receiving, by the authentication server and from the device, a request to connect the device to a network of a third party. The request is automatically generated by the device without interaction from the user of the device and the request comprises second credentials. The method further includes determining, by the authentication server, whether to authenticate the device using the first credentials and the second credentials and communicating, by the authentication server, a packet to the device that allows the device to connect to the network of the third party if the authentication server determines to authenticate the device.