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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2011
Paul Perry, Lexington, MA (US);
Sean Byrnes, Cambridge, MA (US);
Valeriy Elbert, Arlington, MA (US);
Chivas Nambiar, Brookline, MA (US);
Conor Hunt, Newton, MA (US);
Thanos Kosmidis, Brookline, MA (US);
Vineet Gupta, Waltham, MA (US);
Paul Perry, Lexington, MA (US);
Sean Byrnes, Cambridge, MA (US);
Valeriy Elbert, Arlington, MA (US);
Chivas Nambiar, Brookline, MA (US);
Conor Hunt, Newton, MA (US);
Thanos Kosmidis, Brookline, MA (US);
Vineet Gupta, Waltham, MA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system and method for managing access to a Wi-Fi system include redirecting an access request, comprising a user credential, from a wireless user device to an authentication server, obtaining, from a first database, a list of a plurality of authentication databases from which users may be authenticated, the list including a protocol required for communication with each of the authentication databases, transmitting a request to each of the listed authentication databases using the identified protocol, and permitting the user access to the Internet through the Wi-Fi system if the user is authenticated by at least one of the listed authentication databases.