WLAN Connection Setup Application and Profile Manager
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1. A method for displaying a list of available wireless local area networks, the method comprising:
- displaying on a display of a wireless local area network ‘
WLAN’
client device a list of wireless local area networks that are available to the WLAN client device, by displaying first in the list a WLAN to which the WLAN client device is currently connected, regardless of its received signal strength at the WLAN client device, and by displaying further in the list any other available wireless local area networks ordered by decreasing received signal strength at the WLAN client device.
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Abstract
A sequence of screens are displayed for a wireless local area network (WLAN) connection setup application to enable a user of a handheld WLAN client device to scan for and set up a new WLAN connection. Various connection parameters may be saved in a profile. A profile management application lists profiles in decreasing order of priority.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for displaying a list of available wireless local area networks, the method comprising:
displaying on a display of a wireless local area network ‘
WLAN’
client device a list of wireless local area networks that are available to the WLAN client device, by displaying first in the list a WLAN to which the WLAN client device is currently connected, regardless of its received signal strength at the WLAN client device, and by displaying further in the list any other available wireless local area networks ordered by decreasing received signal strength at the WLAN client device.
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2. A method for displaying a list of available wireless local area networks, the method comprising:
displaying on a display of a WLAN client device a list of wireless local area networks that are available to the WLAN client device, by distinguishing in the list available wireless local area networks for which a preferred connection profile is saved in the WLAN client device from any other available wireless local area networks. - View Dependent Claims (3)
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4. A method for saving a connection profile of a wireless local area network ‘
- WLAN’
, the method comprising;obtaining information regarding a particular WLAN for which a connection profile is not stored in a WLAN client device; attempting to connect to the particular WLAN; displaying via a display of the WLAN client device that the attempt was unsuccessful; and saving the information in a connection profile in the WLAN client device. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6)
- WLAN’
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7. A method for handling one or more virtual private network ‘
- VPN’
profiles defined in a wireless local area network ‘
WLAN’
client device, the method comprising;in response to connecting to a WLAN, enabling input, via a user input element of the WLAN client device, of an indication whether to attempt to establish a VPN connection over the WLAN. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
- VPN’
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14. A method for handling hotspots, the method comprising:
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detecting that a wireless local area network ‘
WLAN’
to which a WLAN client device has just connected is offered by a hotspot, where access to a public network is provided by the WLAN via a gateway; andlaunching a browser application of the WLAN client device with an Internet Protocol address that ought to trigger an Internet Protocol filtering rule of the gateway. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method for displaying a list of connection profiles of wireless local area networks, the method comprising:
displaying on a display of a wireless local area network ‘
WLAN’
client device a list of connection profiles of wireless local area networks stored in the WLAN client device along with indications of relative priorities of the connection profiles, where the connection profiles are ordered in the list according to their decreasing relative priority, in which a newly created connection profile is automatically selected in the list.- View Dependent Claims (20)
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