Mobile unit configuration management for WLANs
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1. A normal-communications inhibitor, comprising:
- an electronic device comprising a representation of data;
the data comprising a program for inhibiting normal wireless communications via at least one wireless local area network between a wireless device and at least one resource;
the program being configured to allow or inhibit normal communications between the wireless device and the at least one resource based on a compliance determination of whether the wireless device complies with at least one policy;
the compliance determination being based on at least one structure/function determination of at least one aspect of the structure or function of the wireless device performed by the program executed on the wireless device;
wherein the at least one policy is selected from a collection of one or more candidate policies based on an identifier of an access point.
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Abstract
A system for enforcing configuration requirements for hardware and software on mobile units operating on Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN). The system allows the configuration policy to change dynamically with the access point or sub-network association. Whenever a mobile unit connects to a new sub-network or access point, the system invokes and then verifies the proper configuration profile for that sub-network or access point. Thus the system ensures the configuration of the mobile unit meets the requirements for the sub-network being used.
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84 Claims
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1. A normal-communications inhibitor, comprising:
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an electronic device comprising a representation of data; the data comprising a program for inhibiting normal wireless communications via at least one wireless local area network between a wireless device and at least one resource; the program being configured to allow or inhibit normal communications between the wireless device and the at least one resource based on a compliance determination of whether the wireless device complies with at least one policy; the compliance determination being based on at least one structure/function determination of at least one aspect of the structure or function of the wireless device performed by the program executed on the wireless device; wherein the at least one policy is selected from a collection of one or more candidate policies based on an identifier of an access point. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A configuration management system, comprising:
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a client program embodied on a wireless device for execution; a policy that the wireless device be configured in accord with a determinable profile; the client program being configured to determine a BSSID of an access point through which access point the wireless device may communicate, and based on the determination, select a configuration profile from a collection of one or more configuration profiles and to configure the wireless device in accordance with the configuration profile, and the client program being further configured to provide an indication that the wireless device is configured in accord with the profile in order to cause a normal-communications inhibitor to permit normal communications between the wireless device and at least one server program. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 81, 82, 83, 84)
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45. A system for the enforcement of configurations of mobile units, comprising
a configuration management software client on the mobile units, one or more servers for controlling the hardware, software and stored data configurations on the mobile units, one or more sub-networks connected to the one or more servers, one or more configuration profiles specific to some of the one or more of the sub-networks on which the mobile units can roam, one or more wireless access points connected to each of the one or more sub-networks and capable of communicating with the mobile units, wherein the integrity of hardware is verified periodically.
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