US 8,452,858 B2 · Method and apparatus for loading landing page

Abstract

A Universal Serial Bus (USB) modem/Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) device is provided that when connected to a host device, presents itself as an Ethernet endpoint to the host device, without requiring additional software/drivers to be downloaded to the host device. Embedded in the USB modem/WWAN device are various modules that provide functionality allowing either automatic connection to the Internet or redirection to a local Web User Interface (UI) that a user may employ to configure the USB modem/WWAN device and/or manually connect to the Internet. Additionally, the USB modem/WWAN device employs predetermined rules to determine whether or not/how the redirection occurs, including in scenarios where wireless connectivity to the Internet is unavailable.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

presenting a universal serial bus (USB) modem to a host device as an Ethernet endpoint without installing USB modem application software on the host device, wherein the presenting is performed by the USB modem itself;
issuing to the host device, from the USB modem, an Internet Protocol (IP) address;
automatically connecting to the Internet when the USB modem determines that it is configured to automatically connect to the Internet;
and
redirecting a hypertext protocol (HTTP) request from the host device to a Web user interface (UI) when the USB modem determines that it is not configured to automatically connect to the Internet.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/465,967Filed 7 May 2012 · continuation in part

Priority

15 May 2009

Published

US 2012/0221685 A130 Aug 2012

Granted

28 May 2013

Term ends

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Classification7 codes

H04W 76/10
Connection management: connection setup
H04W 92/18
Interfaces between hierarchically similar devices: between terminal devices
H04L 61/2514
Translation of Internet protocol [IP] addresses: between local and global IP addresses
H04L 61/4511
Using standardised directories; using standardised directory access protocols: using domain name system [DNS]

Family

Application61/178,926Us provisional application · filed 15 May 2009

Application61/181,645Us provisional application · filed 27 May 2009

Application12/509,311Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 24 Jul 2009

Application61/528,759Us provisional application · filed 29 Aug 2011

US 2012/0221685 A1Pre-grant publication · published 30 Aug 2012

US 2010/0293249 A1Published application

US 8,452,858 B2This patent

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