Dual mode service WiFi access control
AssigneeAT&T Mobility II LLC
InventorsDavid Glass, Adnan Abu-Dayya
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Abstract
The provision of dual mode services is facilitated. Access to the dual mode services is controlled by associating a mobile device to an access point. Subscribers are required to provide valid geographical addresses for access points associated with the mobile devices prior to provision of service. Consequently, physical addresses are necessarily available for emergency services (e.g., E911). Mobile devices are restricted to specific access points based upon the access point identifiers automatically provided during initialization of service and maintained for authorization purposes.
Claims20
A mobile device, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- sending, to a network device, address information identifying a physical address associated with an access point device in association with a request for a dual mode service provided by a wireless network associated with the network device;
- sending, to the network device, a message comprising an identifier for the access point;
- and
- receiving, from the network device, activation information indicating the dual mode service has been activated for the mobile device via the access point device based on a determination that the physical address is valid, and further based on replacement of a default identifier associated with subscriber information for the mobile device with the identifier.
A method, comprising:
- sending, by a mobile device operatively coupled to a processor, address information identifying a physical address associated with an access point device in association with a request to a network device for a dual mode service provided by a wireless network associated with the network device;
- sending, by the mobile device, a message to the network device comprising an identifier for the access point device;
- and
- receiving, by the mobile device, activation information from the network device indicating the dual mode service has been activated for the mobile device via the access point device based on a determination that the physical address is valid, and further based on replacement of a default identifier with the identifier in account information for the mobile device.
The method device of 12, wherein the determination that the physical address is valid is based on an availability of an emergency service for the physical address.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a mobile device, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- sending a network device address information identifying a physical address associated with an access point device in association with a request for a dual mode service provided by a wireless network associated with the network device;
- sending the network device a message comprising an identifier for the access point device;
- and
- receiving activation information from the network device indicating the dual mode service has been activated for the mobile device via the access point device based on a replacement of a default identifier with the identifier in account information for the mobile device, wherein the default identifier was associated with the account information in response to validation of the geographical address.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.