Wireless gateway supporting public and private networks
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1. A method comprising:
- receiving, from a user device and by an interface device associated with a first wireless network and a second wireless network, a request to connect to the first wireless network;
receiving, by the interface device and from the user device, user information indicating a user and device information indicating a device;
based on a determination that the user information and device information correspond to registration information associated with the second wireless network, denying, by the interface device, the request to connect to the first wireless network; and
based on a determination that the user device has failed to connect to the second wireless network, allowing the user device to connect to the first wireless network.
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Abstract
An interface device may provide a first wireless network and a second wireless network in a user'"'"'s premise. The interface device may encourage some user devices to connect to the second wireless network without controlling the user devices. For example, the interface device may receive a request from a device to access its first wireless network. The interface device may then determine whether the device is a premise device by, for example, searching a database of device registration information. The interface device may determine that the device is a premise device and deny the request to access the first wireless network. The device may then be available to access the second wireless network.
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving, from a user device and by an interface device associated with a first wireless network and a second wireless network, a request to connect to the first wireless network; receiving, by the interface device and from the user device, user information indicating a user and device information indicating a device; based on a determination that the user information and device information correspond to registration information associated with the second wireless network, denying, by the interface device, the request to connect to the first wireless network; and based on a determination that the user device has failed to connect to the second wireless network, allowing the user device to connect to the first wireless network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An apparatus comprising:
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one or more processors; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to; receive, from a user device, a request to connect to a first wireless network; receive, from the user device, user information indicating a user and user device information indicating the user device; based on a determination that the user information and the user device information correspond to a device that has access to a second wireless network, deny the request to connect to the first wireless network; and based on a determination that the user device has failed to connect to the second wireless network, allowing the user device to connect to the first wireless network. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing executable instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:
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receive, from a user device, a request to communicate via a first wireless network; receive, from the user device, user information indicating a user and device information indicating a device; based on a determination that the user information and device information correspond to a device that has access via a second wireless network, deny the request to communicate via the first wireless network; and based on a determination that the user device has failed to access the second wireless network, allowing the user device to communicate via the first wireless network. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method comprising:
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receiving, by an interface device and from a requesting device, a request to communicate via a first wireless network associated with the interface device; receiving, by the interface device and from the requesting device, information indicating the requesting device; denying the request based on determining that the requesting device has previously communicated via a second wireless network associated with the interface device; determining that the requesting device has failed, after the denying, to communicate via the second wireless network; and allowing the requesting device to communicate via the first wireless network, wherein the allowing is performed after the denying the request and after the determining that the requesting device has failed to communicate via the second wireless network. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23)
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