The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2010
Manjunath Jagannatharao, San Jose, CA (US);
Nipa Kumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sandip Shah, Milpitas, CA (US);
Nagendra Krishna Sundaranathan, Bangalore, IN;
Manjunath Jagannatharao, San Jose, CA (US);
Nipa Kumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sandip Shah, Milpitas, CA (US);
Nagendra Krishna Sundaranathan, Bangalore, IN;
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A network device may include a supplicant framework to generate a first 802.1x packet using a MAC address, associated with a first device as a first username and password in the first 802.1x packet; and generate a second 802.1x packet using a second username and password received from a second device via a captive-portal web page. The network device may further include an authenticator state machine to authenticate the first device with a Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) server using a first Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) packet that includes the first 802.1x packet; authenticate the second device with the RADIUS server using a second EAP packet that includes the second 802.1x packet; receive a third EAP packet from a third device; and authenticate the third device with the RADIUS server using the third EAP packet.