BINDING AN AUTHENTICATED USER WITH A WIRELESS DEVICE

• US 20160021538A1
• Filed: 09/30/2015
• Published: 01/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (Infineon Technologies AG)
• Original Assignee: Cirrent, Inc.
• Inventors: Nelson, Barbara, Conant, Robert A., Paiva, Anre Nario Roshan, Pister, Stark
• Granted Patent: US 10,154,409 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/63 Location-dependent; Proximity-dependent

Abstract

Methods, systems and apparatus for binding an authenticated user with a wireless device are disclosed. One method includes receiving local environment information from the wireless device, receiving local information from a computing device of the authenticated user, comparing the local environment information of the wireless device with the local information of the computing device, binding the wireless device with the computing device based on the comparison of the local environment information of the wireless device with the local information of the computing device, and communicating information to a wireless device cloud management system that indicates that the binding between the wireless device and the computing device has occurred.

Claims

1. A method of binding an authenticated user with a wireless device, comprising:

receiving, by a cloud system, local environment information from the wireless device;

receiving, by the cloud system, local information from a computing device of the authenticated user;

comparing, by the cloud system, the local environment information of the wireless device with the local information of the computing device;

binding, by the cloud system, the wireless device with the computing device based on the comparison of the local environment information of the wireless device with the local information of the computing device; and

communicating, by the cloud system, information to a wireless device cloud management system that indicates that the binding between the wireless device and the computing device has occurred.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless device cloud management system allows the authenticated user to control the wireless device upon receiving the information that indicates that the binding between the wireless device and the computing device has occurred.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising preconfiguring the wireless device with credentials before the cloud system receives the local environment information from the device.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising connecting the wireless device to a network of the cloud system, comprising:

automatically requesting association, by the wireless device, to a router;

receiving, by the cloud system, an authentication request from the router, wherein the router received the authentication request from the wireless device;

returning, by the cloud system, a response to the authentication request to the router, wherein the response includes internet domains and connection bandwidths the wireless device is allowed to use; and

preconfiguring the cloud system with the credentials that are also preconfigured in the wireless device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising adaptively changing an environment local to the computing device, and the cloud system utilizing the adaptive change in the local environment of the computing device while comparing the local environment information of the wireless device with the local information of the computing device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising adaptively changing an environment local to the wireless device, and the cloud system utilizing the adaptive change in the local environment of the wireless device while comparing the local environment information of the wireless device with the local information of the computing device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the local environment information from the wireless device comprises at least localization information.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the local environment information from the wireless device comprises at least sensed information.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the local environment information from the computing device comprises at least localization information.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the local environment information from the computing device comprises at least sensed information.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein comparing the local environment information of the wireless device with the local information of the computing device further comprises time correlating at least one of sensing or reporting of the local environment information of the wireless device and the local information of the computing device.

12. A cloud system network, comprising:

cloud system operative to bind an authenticated user with a wireless device;

a wireless device cloud management system connected through a network to the cloud system;

the wireless device connected through the network to the cloud system;

wherein the cloud system is operative to;

receive local environment information from the wireless device;

receive local information from a computing device of the authenticated user;

compare the local environment information of the wireless device with the local information of the computing device;

bind the wireless device with the computing device based on the comparison of the local environment information of the wireless device with the local information of the computing device; and

communicate information to the wireless device cloud management system that indicates that the binding between the wireless device and the computing device has occurred; and

wherein the wireless device cloud management system is operative to allow the authenticated user to control the wireless device upon receiving the information that indicates that the binding between the wireless device and the computing device has occurred.

13. The cloud system network of claim 12, wherein the cloud system is further operative to:

receive an authentication request from a router, wherein the router received the authentication request from the wireless device, wherein the authentication request was automatically requested by the wireless device; and

return a response to the authentication request to the router, wherein the response includes internet domains and connection bandwidths the wireless device is allowed to use.

14. The cloud system network of claim 12, wherein the cloud system if further operative to:

control an adaptive change to an environment local to the computing device; and

utilize the adaptive change in the local environment of the computing device while comparing the local environment information of the wireless device with the local information of the computing device.

15. The cloud system network of claim 12, wherein the cloud system if further operative to:

control an adaptive change to an environment local to the wireless device; and

utilize the adaptive change in the local environment of the wireless device while comparing the local environment information of the wireless device with the local information of the computing device.

16. The cloud system network of claim 12, wherein comparing the local environment information of the wireless device with the local information of the computing device further comprises time correlating at least one of sensing or reporting of the local environment information of the wireless device and the local information of the computing device.

17. A cloud system, operative to:

receive local environment information from a wireless device;

receive local information from a computing device of an authenticated user;

compare the local environment information of the wireless device with the local information of the computing device;

bind the wireless device with the computing device based on the comparison of the local environment information of the wireless device with the local information of the computing device; and

communicate information to the wireless device cloud management system that indicates that the binding between the wireless device and the computing device has occurred; and

wherein the wireless device cloud management system is operative to allow the authenticated user to control the wireless device upon receiving the information that indicates that the binding between the wireless device and the computing device has occurred.

18. The cloud system of claim 17, wherein the cloud system is further operative to:

control an adaptive change to an environment local to the computing device; and

utilize the adaptive change in the local environment of the computing device while comparing the local environment information of the wireless device with the local information of the computing device.

19. The cloud system of claim 17, wherein the cloud system is further operative to:

control an adaptive change to an environment local to the wireless device; and

utilize the adaptive change in the local environment of the wireless device while comparing the local environment information of the wireless device with the local information of the computing device.

20. The cloud system of claim 17, wherein comparing the local environment information of the wireless device with the local information of the computing device further comprises time correlating at least one of sensing or reporting of the local environment information of the wireless device and the local information of the computing device.

21. The cloud system of claim 17, wherein the cloud system is further operative to:

receive an authentication request from a router, wherein the router received the authentication request from the wireless device, wherein the authentication request was automatically requested by the wireless device; and

return a response to the authentication request to the router, wherein the response includes internet domains and connection bandwidths the wireless device is allowed to use.