Access control interfaces for enhanced wireless router

A wireless router serving as a wireless local area network access point for one or more client devices to access a wide area network, the wireless router comprising:

• a processor system;
• a local storage system holding a plurality of user profiles, an executable program, and a plurality of session states, and further holding instructions executable by the processor system to:
• receive user registration information from a client device over a wireless local area network, the user registration information including a user credential obtained as one or more user inputs directed at a user registration interface presented by the client device;
• register the user at the wireless router by storing the user credential at the local storage system as a registered user credential in association with a user profile of the plurality of user profiles;
• receive a request over the wireless local area network to access a session state associated with the user profile of the plurality of session states at the local storage system;
• receive authentication information over the wireless local area network, the authentication information including at least the user credential, the user credential of the authentication information obtained as one or more user inputs directed at a login interface presented by the client device or by a different client device;
• and
• grant the request to access the session state from the local storage system associated with the user profile based, at least in part, on a valid comparison of the user credential of the authentication information to the registered user credential, wherein access to the session state enables an authenticated client device including the client device or the different client device to continue a prior program session of the program stored at the local data store and executed at the wireless router, including enabling program control commands to be passed from the authenticated client device to the program and/or enabling responses generated by the program to be passed to the authenticated client device.

A storage system holding instructions executable by a processor system to:

• present a user with a user registration interface;
• obtain a user credential as one or more user inputs directed at the user registration interface;
• transmit the user credential and a device specific identifier to a wireless router over a wireless local area network, the device specific identifier defined, at least in part, by one or more identifiers associated with hardware components and/or software components of a client device;
• present a user with a login interface responsive to detecting the wireless router;
• obtain the user credential as one or more inputs directed at the login interface;
• transmit the user credential and the device specific identifier to the wireless router over the wireless local area network for authentication by the wireless router of the user based on the user credential and of the client device based on the device specific identifier;
• establish a communication session between the wireless router and the authenticated client device;
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• controlling access to a program stored at the local storage system of the wireless router and executed at the wireless router for the communication session based on device settings for the authenticated client device and user settings for the authenticated user stored at the local storage system of the wireless router, wherein controlling access to the program stored at the local storage system and executed at the wireless router includes enabling program control commands to be passed from the authenticated client device to the program and/or enabling responses generated by the program to be passed to the authenticated client device.