US 10,320,847 B2Granted

User-based network onboarding

AssigneeAerohive Networks, Inc.

InventorsMu Lin, Xu Zou, John Hanay

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Abstract

A request related to an access to a network by a first user device may be received. The user device may be included in a plurality of user devices associated with a first first-level security profile assigned to the user. An application extension to an application executing on the first user device may be accessed in response to the request related to the access. A network connectivity file may be provided to the application extension. The network connectivity file may include network configuration information for the first user device. The network configuration information may be associated with a first second-level security profile assigned to the first user device. Instructions to configure the first user device to access the network based at least in part on the network configuration information in the network connectivity file may be provided.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving user information of a user requesting access to a network with a first user device of the user;
assigning a first-level security profile to the user based on the user information of the user;
assigning a second-level security profile including first network configuration information to the first user device of the user;
providing a browser extension to the first user device and causing the first user device to install the provided browser extension in a web browser of the first user device;
after assigning the second-level security profile to the first user device, providing a network connectivity file containing the first network configuration information to the first user device and causing the first user device to load the network connectivity file into the browser extension installed in the web browser of the first user device;
enabling the first user device to access the network through the web browser using the first network configuration information included in the network connectivity file loaded into the browser extension.

3 more elements

A system comprising:

one or more processors;
memory storing instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, configured to cause the one or more processors to perform a computer-implemented method, the computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving user information of a user requesting access to a network with a first user device of the user;
assigning a first-level security profile to the user based on the user information of the user;
assigning a second-level security profile including first network configuration information to the first user device of the user;
providing a browser extension to the first user device and causing the first user device to install the provided browser extension in a web browser of the first user device;
after assigning the second-level security profile to the first user device, providing a network connectivity file containing the first network configuration information to the first user device and causing the first user device to load the network connectivity file into the browser extension installed in the web browser of the first user device;
enabling the first user device to access the network through the web browser using the first network configuration information included in the network connectivity file loaded into the browser extension.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/977,310Filed 11 May 2018 · continuation
Priority: 13 Dec 2013
Published: US 2018/0262535 A113 Sep 2018
Granted: 11 Jun 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

G06F 21/44
Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals: program or device authentication
G06F 21/45
Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals: structures or tools for the administration of authentication
H04L 63/10
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: for controlling access to devices or network resources
H04L 63/102
For controlling access to devices or network resources: entity profiles

Family

Application61/916,088Us provisional application · filed 13 Dec 2013
Application14/180,297Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Feb 2014
Application14/868,347Parent of this continuation · filed 28 Sep 2015
US 9,152,782 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Oct 2015
Application15/183,753Parent of this continuation · filed 15 Jun 2016
US 9,479,540 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 25 Oct 2016
Application15/480,273Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Apr 2017
US 9,686,319 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 20 Jun 2017
US 2018/0262535 A1Pre-grant publication · published 13 Sep 2018
US 10,003,615 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2015/0169864 A1Published application
US 2016/0021144 A1Published application
US 2016/0294880 A1Published application
US 2017/0208101 A1Published application
US 9,450,987 B2Related patent
US 10,320,847 B2This patent

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