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Intelligent network access controller and method

  • US 8,254,886 B2
  • Filed: 09/14/2009
  • Issued: 08/28/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An intelligent network access controller (INAC), tangibly embodying a program of instructions readable by the INAC to perform steps of a process that creates a local wireless network and that dynamically controls access by wireless devices to a macro wireless network overlaying or underlying the local wireless network, the steps, comprising:

  • registering the wireless devices, wherein the devices are identified and classified, and wherein the devices comprise one of allowed, restricted, and unknown;

    dynamically determining characteristic values of the devices;

    dynamically granting access by the devices to the macro network based on the dynamically determined characteristics of the devices; and

    locking devices to the local wireless network based on the dynamically determined characteristics.

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