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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2016
Applicant:
Roku, Inc., Saratoga, CA (US);
Inventors:
Allen Tsz-Chiu Wong, San Jose, CA (US);
Bharath Bhoopalam, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
ROKU, INC., Saratoga, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01); H04W 12/08 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0876 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04L 65/1069 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04L 65/60 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 12/08 (2013.01); H04W 4/008 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system, method and computer readable device are described herein. A plurality of packets are received at a data streaming device, from a computing device; the packets including authentication information for gaining access to a local network. The MAC address of the computing device with a MAC address of a data streaming device in the header of the packets. The authentication information including the MAC address of the data streaming device to a server. An authentication to access the local network is received from the server.