SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING A MAC ADDRESS OF A WIRELESS STATION WITH PERSONAL IDENTIFYING INFORMATION OF A USER OF THE WIRELESS STATION

• US 20140169256A1
• Filed: 12/17/2013
• Published: 06/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Radius Networks, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Radius Networks, Inc.
• Inventors: BRADISH, Stillman, SMITH, Scott A., WALLACE, Marc
• Granted Patent: US 9,749,813 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/312
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services

Abstract

A wireless station receives a message broadcast by a string broadcast station, which message includes a network information string. The wireless station generates an identifier comprising a tag component and a content component and sends the identifier and the network information string to a datastore. The identifier is stored in association with the network information string in the datastore.

Claims

1. A method for managing content exchanges in a wireless network comprising:

receiving by a wireless station a message broadcast by a string broadcast station, wherein the string broadcast station message comprises a network information string;

generating by the wireless station an identifier comprising a tag component and a content component;

sending the identifier and the network information string to a datastore; and

storing the identifier in association with the network information string in the datastore.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless station is selected from the group consisting of a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop computer, a Wi-Fi enabled device, a Bluetooth enabled device, and a Zigbee enabled device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless station and the string broadcast station communicate over a wireless network selected from the group consisting of a Wi-Fi network, an RFID network, a Zigbee network, a Bluetooth network and a 3G/4G cellular network.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the message broadcast by the string broadcast station comprises a network name identifier and wherein the network information string comprises at least a portion of the network name identifier.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the network name identifier is a service set identifier.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the message broadcast by the string broadcast station comprises a MAC address of the string broadcast station and wherein the network information string comprises the MAC address of the string broadcast station.