# US 12,120,512 B2 · Online validation service secures access to devices connected wirelessly to a secure secondary intelligent router module, which is connected via a wireless connection to a primary wired/wireless router/modem

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- Number: US 12,120,512 B2
- Document ID: US12120512B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/653,794
- Filed: 2022-03-07
- Published: 2022-09-15
- Granted: 2024-10-15
- Earliest claimed: 2021-03-08
- Applicants: Gary William Streuter; William Pat Price; Andy Gutman
- Inventors: Gary William Streuter; William Pat Price; Andy Gutman
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12120512B2

## CPC

- H04W 12/08: Access security
- H04W 76/15: Setup of multiple wireless link connections
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)

## Abstract

An external Secure Intelligent Secondary Router is connected to a Primary Wired/Wireless Router/Modem via wire cable, and whereby said external Secure Intelligent Secondary Router communicably coupled to said Primary Wired/Wireless Router/Modem creates one or more secure secondary Wi-Fi networks that can only be accessed by a computing device that has been registered by the rightful account owner and whose identity has been validated by an online validation service.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A system for securely protecting local Internet of Things (IoT) wireless devices by not allowing access to any IoT device without verifying the identity of a user's computing device prior to granting the access comprising:
a first primary wired/wireless router/modem communicably coupled to a first secure intelligent secondary router via a wireless communication connection, said first secure intelligent secondary router having knowledge of local wireless devices wirelessly communicably coupled to said first secure intelligent secondary router, said system comprising:
a first user and,
a first wired or wireless user computing device hosting a first companion application and, a first client agent and,
a first companion server residing on an external network, said first companion server hosting a first companion cloud application, and
said first primary wired/wireless router/modem residing in a home or business and,
said first secure intelligent secondary router and,
a first validation server and,
a first validation database hosted on said first validation server and,
at least a first wireless IoT device;
a) said first companion application executing on said first wired or wireless user computing device sends a first connect request as signal 1A to said first companion cloud application executing on said first companion server, and said first companion cloud application receives said connect request as signal 1A and passes said connect request as signal 1B to said first Primary wired/wireless router/modem as signal 1B and said first Primary wired/wireless router/modem receives said connect request as signal 1B and passes said connect request as signal 1C to said first secure intelligent secondary router as said connect request signal 1C;
b) said first secure intelligent secondary router receives said connect request signal 1C and determines that said connect request signal 1C is a connect request requiring said first user's computing device to be validated by said first validation database residing on said first validation server, and said first secure intelligent secondary router is aware of said first validation database, and said first secure intelligent secondary router sends said connect request signal 1C to said primary router/modem as connect request signal 3A;
c) said primary wired/wireless router modem receives said connect request signal 3A and passes it onto said first validation database residing on said first validation server, and said first validation database receives said connect request signal 3B and sends a validation request as signal 3C to said first Primary Wired/Wireless Router/Modem, and said first Primary wired/wireless router/modem receives said validation request signal 3C and passes said validation request signal 3D to said first user computing device as validation signal 3D;
d) said first user computing device receives said validation request signal 3D and launches said first client agent, and said first client agent assembles a first set of unique identifiers from hardware and software modules resident on said first user computing device, and said client agent secures said first set of unique identifiers by encrypting said first set of unique identifiers as said first set of encrypted unique identifiers, and said first client agent sends said first set of encrypted unique identifiers as signal 4A to said first Primary wired/wireless router/modem, and said first primary wired/wireless router/modem sends said first set of encrypted unique identifiers as signal 4B to said first validation database;
e) said first validation database receives said first set of encrypted unique identifiers and attempts to match said first set of encrypted unique identifiers against at least one set of previous sets of encrypted unique identifiers in said first validation database, and if a match is made, said first Validation Database sets Return Status, Signal 5A, equal to “Validated, Access Granted”, and if a match is not made, said first Validation Database sets Return Status, Signal 5A, equal to “Not Validated, Access Denied”, and after said match is attempted and said Return Status Signal 5A is set, said validation database sends said Return Status Signal 5A to said first Primary Wired/Wireless Router/Modem;
f) Said first primary wired/wireless router/modem receives said Return Status Signal 5A and said first Primary wired/wireless router/modem wirelessly sends said Return Status Signal 5A as Return Status Signal 5B, to said first secure intelligent secondary router, and said first secure intelligent secondary router sends said Return Status Signal 5B, to said first Primary wired/wireless router/modem as Return Status Signal 7A, and first Primary wired/wireless router/modem passes said Return Status Signal 7A to said first companion cloud application as Return Status Signal 7B, and if said return status signal 5B, is “Validated, Access Granted”, said first secure intelligent secondary router sends return status signal 5B as signal 6 to said at least first IoT device to begin its data operation by sending said data to said first secure intelligent wireless router as signal 8A;
g) said first companion cloud application receives Return Status Signal 7B, and passes said Return Status Signal 7B to said first companion application executing on said first user computing device as Return Status Signal 7C after which said first companion application will display a visual notification to the user that the connection to either IT device 1 or to IoT device 2 was successful;
h) If Return Status Signal 5B received by said first secure intelligent secondary router is “Validated, Access Granted”, secure intelligent secondary router sends signal 6A, to the selected IoT device 1 or IoT device 2 that a connection has been made and the device is in service.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1 where said first Secure Intelligent secondary Router is connected via a wired cable connection to said first Primary wired/wireless router/modem instead of being connected to said first Primary Wired/Wireless Router/Modem via a wireless connection.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1 where a software control program contained in and controlling said first secure intelligent secondary router is embedded in said first primary wired/wireless router/modem providing the same functionality for said first primary wired/wireless router/modem as is described for said first secure intelligent secondary router.