Method And Systems For Pairing A Mobile Device With A Wireless Network
AssigneeComcast Cable Communications, LLC
InventorsBryan Paluch, Arpit Mathur
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for associating a device with a network, such as a wireless network. One method comprises storing network identifying information for a network in a database, receiving contact information from a computing device, determining whether the contact information is associated with the network identifying information in the database, and coupling the computing device with the network in response to determining that the contact information is associated with the network identifying information.
Claims20
A method for associating a device with a network, comprising:
- storing network identifying information for a network in a database;
- receiving contact information from a computing device;
- determining whether the contact information is associated with the network identifying information in the database;
- and
- coupling the computing device with the network in response to determining that the contact information is associated with the network identifying information.
A system for associating a device with a network, comprising:
- a network having access to network identifying information;
- and
- a first computing device in communication with the network and a second computing device, the first computing device having comprising user identifying information associated with the network identifying information,
- wherein the first computing device is configured to receive contact information from the second computing device, and wherein the first computing device is configured to transmit credentials for accessing the network to the second computing device in response to determining that the user identifying information associated with the network identifying information matches the contact information.
A method for pairing a mobile device with a wireless network, comprising:
- receiving a media access control (MAC) address of a first network at a first computing device;
- transmitting the MAC address and contact information to a second computing device using a second network;
- determining whether the contact information matches user identifying information associated with the MAC address;
- and
- pairing the first computing device with the first network in response to determining that the contact information matches the user identifying information associated with the MAC address.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.