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US 2014/0073288 A1Published application
Mobile device authorization, authentication and data usage accounting for mobile data offload in a network of shared protected/locked wifi access points
AssigneeWavemax Corp.
InventorEduardo Velasco
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Abstract
In some implementations, a Wi-Fi access point that is secured using WEP, WPA or WPA2 or other protection method(s) is further mapped, located and seamlessly accessed through a key that is preshared (PSK) by the Wi-Fi access point through a cloud based application over the Internet, thus a mobile device can access the Internet via the Wi-Fi access point using the PSK without the operator of the mobile device entering the PSK. The PSK is transmitted in encrypted form to the mobile device via a 3G/4G network.
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A method of communication a mobile device between a 3G/4G network, a NGN and a shared Wi-Fi access point, the method comprising:
- displaying a downloaded map of the shared Wi-Fi access points that are within proximity of the mobile device based on a GPS location of a device identification of the shared Wi-Fi access point that is within proximity of the mobile device based on a GPS location of the mobile device;
- scanning SSID beacons of the shared Wi-Fi access points to read signal strength and protection method of the SSID beacons, yielding a scanned list of shared SSIDs;
- transmitting via the 3G/4G network a request that includes current GPS coordinates of the GPS location of the mobile device and a user ID and a password to confirm the scanned list of shared SSIDs;
- receiving from the NGN a denial of authentication via the 3G/4G network;
- receiving from the NGN a denial of authorization via the 3G/4G network;
- receiving from the NGN an authentication and authorization message and the list of shared SSIDs and corresponding preshared secret keys (PSK) via the 3G/4G network;
- receiving from the NGN via the 3G/4G network a location based service communication on the mobile device;
- displaying the list of shared SSIDs in response to the receiving;
- receiving from the user a selected shared Wi-Fi access point SSID being a selection of a single SSID in the list of shared SSIDs;
- activating a Wi-Fi transceiver of the mobile device when the Wi-Fi transceiver is not activated;
- establishing a 802.11 wireless session with the shared Wi-Fi access point;
- communicating with the shared Wi-Fi access point through the 802.11 wireless session with the shared Wi-Fi access point, wherein data is transferred between the mobile device and the shared Wi-Fi access point;
- transmitting a Radius start-accounting message to the NGN via HTTPS and XML and via the 802.11 wireless session with the shared Wi-Fi access point;
- displaying the location based service communication on the mobile device from the NGN;
- transmitting at least one usage interim accounting message while the 802.11 wireless session with the shared Wi-Fi access point is active and while data is being transferred between the mobile device and the shared Wi-Fi access point;
- transmitting a usage stop accounting message when a user instruction to log out is received or when a Wi-Fi signal of the shared Wi-Fi access point is lost;
- turning off the Wi-Fi transceiver in the mobile device;
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- turning on a 3G data connection to enable a wireless data session to the 3G/4G network.
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A method of communication of a mobile device between a 3G/4G network, a NGN and a shared Wi-Fi access point, the method comprising:
- displaying a downloaded map of shared Wi-Fi access points that are within proximity of the mobile device based on a GPS location of a device identification of the shared Wi-Fi access point within proximity of the mobile device based on the GPS location of the mobile device;
- scanning SSID beacons of the shared Wi-Fi access points to read signal strength and protection method of the SSID beacons, yielding a scanned list of shared SSIDs;
- transmitting via the 3G/4G network a request that includes current GPS coordinates of the GPS location of the mobile device, a user ID and a password to confirm the scanned list of shared SSIDs;
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- receiving from the NGN a message selected from a group of message including a denial of authentication via the 3G/4G network and a denial of authorization via the 3G/4G network.
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A method of communication of a mobile device between a 3G/4G network, a NGN and a shared Wi-Fi access point, the method comprising:
- displaying a downloaded map of shared Wi-Fi access points that are within proximity of the mobile device based on a GPS location of a device identification of the shared Wi-Fi access point that is within proximity of the mobile device based on the GPS location of the mobile device;
- scanning SSID beacons of the shared Wi-Fi access points to read signal strength and protection method of the SSID beacons, yielding a scanned list of shared SSIDs;
- transmitting via the 3G/4G network a request that includes current GPS coordinates of the GPS location of the mobile device and a user ID and a password to confirm the scanned list of shared SSIDs;
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- receiving from the NGN an authentication and authorization message and the list of shared SSIDs and corresponding preshared secret keys (PSK) via the 3G/4G network.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.