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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2016
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Travis Roland Beals, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/08 (2009.01); H04M 3/42 (2006.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01); H04W 48/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/08 (2013.01); H04M 3/42153 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 48/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus presented herein allow a non-SIM device to access a paid Wi-Fi network by having a server emulate the non-SIM device as a related SIM-enabled device to a mobile operator. The mobile operator is led to believe that the non-SIM device is the related SIM-enabled device, and thereby grants authorization to the non-SIM device to access the paid Wi-Fi network.