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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2016
Applicant:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Charles J. Hughes, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ivan Poliakov, London, GB;
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/20 (2009.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 67/18 (2013.01); H04W 4/206 (2013.01); H04W 64/006 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for the client device to access a communication network. The request includes data identifying the client device based on an intermediate device certificate signed by one or more of the computing devices. The method also includes associating the request with a user profile of a social-networking system; and granting the client device access to the communication network based at least in part on the association of the request to the user profile.