Methods and apparatus to discover authentication information in a wireless networking environment
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1. A method to provide network authentication information in a wireless network, the method comprising:
- receiving, by an access point, during network discovery and prior to authentication, a Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) request from a wireless terminal, the GAS request requesting network authentication information; and
transmitting, by the access point and to the wireless terminal, a response to the GAS request, wherein the response includes the network authentication information, the network authentication information includes an authentication type information and a re-direct uniform resource locator (URL) frame, and the authentication type information indicates that the wireless terminal uses the re-direct URL frame for at least one of;
(a) obtaining terms and conditions, or (b) hyper text transfer protocol (HTTP)/hyper text transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) redirection.
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Abstract
Examples to discover network authentication information in a wireless network involve transmitting during network discovery and prior to authentication, a Generic Advertisement Services (GAS) request to a network access point. The request requests authentication information. In addition, a response to the request is received from the network access point. The network authentication information is retrieved from the response. The network authentication information includes a re-direct frame.
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1. A method to provide network authentication information in a wireless network, the method comprising:
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receiving, by an access point, during network discovery and prior to authentication, a Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) request from a wireless terminal, the GAS request requesting network authentication information; and transmitting, by the access point and to the wireless terminal, a response to the GAS request, wherein the response includes the network authentication information, the network authentication information includes an authentication type information and a re-direct uniform resource locator (URL) frame, and the authentication type information indicates that the wireless terminal uses the re-direct URL frame for at least one of;
(a) obtaining terms and conditions, or (b) hyper text transfer protocol (HTTP)/hyper text transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) redirection. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. An access point that provides network authentication information in a wireless network, comprising:
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a memory; and at least one hardware processor communicatively coupled with the memory and configured to; receive, during network discovery and prior to authentication, a Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) request from a wireless terminal, the GAS request requesting network authentication information; and transmit, to the wireless terminal, a response to the GAS request, wherein the response includes the network authentication information, the network authentication information includes an authentication type information and a re-direct uniform resource locator (URL) frame, and the authentication type information indicates that the wireless terminal uses the re-direct URL frame for at least one of;
(a) obtaining terms and conditions, or (b) hyper text transfer protocol (HTTP)/hyper text transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) redirection.
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6. A method for an access point to provide authentication information in a wireless network, the method comprising:
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receiving, by the access point, during network discovery and prior to authentication, a Generic Advertisement Services (GAS) request from a wireless terminal, the GAS request requesting authentication information, the authentication information being indicative of an extensible authentication protocol method and indicative of a credential from the wireless terminal to use for authentication of the wireless terminal, and the credential being indicative of a username and password credential; and transmitting, by the access point and to the wireless terminal, a response to the GAS request from the wireless terminal, wherein the response includes the authentication information. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An access point that provides authentication information in a wireless network, comprising:
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a memory; and at least one hardware processor communicatively coupled with the memory and configured to; receive, during network discovery and prior to authentication, a Generic Advertisement Services (GAS) request from a wireless terminal, the GAS request requesting authentication information, the authentication information being indicative of an extensible authentication protocol method and indicative of a credential from the wireless terminal to use for authentication of the wireless terminal, the credential being indicative of a username and password credential; and transmit, to the wireless terminal, a response to the GAS request from the wireless terminal, wherein the response includes the authentication information.
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