METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENFORCING INTERNET USERS' GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONING TRACEABILITY
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1. A method for enforcing Internet users'"'"' geographical positioning traceability, comprising:
- building a community of several network elements with known geographical location;
controlling and authorizing network access to said community;
allowing access of external devices to said community only within one connectivity hop from said network elements in said community.
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Abstract
A method for enforcing Internet users'"'"' geographical positioning traceability, through the building of a community of several network elements with known geographical locations with identified boundaries. The network access to the community is controlled and access of external devices to the community is only possible within one connectivity hop from the network elements of the community.
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18 Claims
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1. A method for enforcing Internet users'"'"' geographical positioning traceability, comprising:
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building a community of several network elements with known geographical location; controlling and authorizing network access to said community;
allowing access of external devices to said community only within one connectivity hop from said network elements in said community. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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- 13. A network access device for enforcing Internet users'"'"' geographical positioning traceability, comprising a software module for regulating network access, authenticating and localizing devices performing broadband connection requests to said network access device, characterized in that said software module is arranged for classifying said devices performing said broadband requests into network elements and end-devices, wherein only network elements are allowed to share their network connection, and in that said software module is arranged for authenticating directly end-users of said end-devices.
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18. A management server for enforcing Internet users'"'"' geographical positioning traceability, said management server providing configuration parameters to network elements and allowing for an automatic set-up of a community of network elements aware of their geographical location.
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