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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2016
Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
John M. Gatewood, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
Lee Alan Schnitzer, Lenexa, KS (US);
Sharon L. Woodrum, Louisburg, KS (US);
Bhanu Prakash Voruganti, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A wireless communication device controls access to a geographically-distributed Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) network. The wireless communication device graphically presents WiFi network data to receive user selections of multiple WiFi access systems, a network name, and a user password. The wireless communication device receives configuration data that associates broadcast identification signals for the WiFi access systems with the network name. The wireless communication device detects a broadcast identification signal for one of the WiFi access systems and responsively presents the network name and a password prompt to receive the user password. The wireless communication device transfers the network name and the user password to the WiFi access system, and in response, the wireless communication device exchanges user data over the WiFi access system.