Router with login functionality and access control method suitable therefor
AssigneePhoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsGerrit BOYSEN, Ingo HILGENKAMP, Andreas FUSS
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Abstract
An access control method and a router, the router connected between at least two communication, installation or computer networks and equipped with login functionality and configured, for logging in a user, to grant the user access to predefined network zones and/or to network devices connected to the network zones following entry of login data recognized as permissible. The access method and router are characterized by an activation/deactivation device interacting with the login functionality provided on the router for temporarily activating and/or deactivating a login data input device required by the user for entering login data.
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A router connected between at least two communication, installation or computer networks and equipped with login functionality and configured, for logging in a user, to grant said user access to predefined network zones and/or to network devices connected to said network zones following entry of login data recognized as permissible, comprising an activation/deactivation device interacting with the login functionality provided on the router for temporarily activating and/or deactivating a login data entry device required for the entry of login data by the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.