TRANSIENT MOBILE APPLICATION CAPTURE IN A RESTRICTED AREA

• US 20160014660A1
• Filed: 07/10/2014
• Published: 01/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: Mehdi Jouan, Pascal Bar, Sebastien Savalle
• Inventors: BAR, Pascal, DES POMMARE, Jean-Nicolas, JOUAN, Mehdi, SAVALLE, Sebastien
• Granted Patent: US 9,635,491 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/00 Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/04 Key management, e.g. using generic bootstrapping architecture [GBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/30 Security of mobile devices; Security of mobile applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/64 using geofenced areas
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/77 Graphical identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure include a system that may allow a mobile device to access a transient mobile application while the user is in a restricted area. The system may include a mobile device, a handover device, a network, a captive portal server, and an application server. The mobile device may interact with a handover device to automatically connect to the network. Once connected to the network, the captive portal server may connect the mobile device to a captive portal. The mobile device may then automatically launch a browser and be redirected to a web address of a transient mobile application. The user may interact with the application while the user is connected to the network and within a restricted area. Once the user leaves the restricted area, he/she may no longer have access to the transient mobile application.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a mobile device;

a handover device to provide network credentials to the mobile device after the mobile device interacts with the handover device, wherein the mobile device is adapted to automatically connect to a network after interacting with the handover device;

a captive portal server to authorize and authenticate the mobile device and to connect the mobile device to a captive portal; and

an application server to host a transient mobile application, wherein

after it is connected to the network and the captive portal, the mobile device is to redirect to an address of the transient mobile application; and

the transient mobile application cannot be accessed outside a restricted area associated with the network.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the handover device is a near field communication (NFC) tag.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the handover device is a quick response (QR) code.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the network is a wireless local area network (WLAN).

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the handover device provides the network credentials to the mobile device using a static NFC handover technique.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the captive portal server connects the mobile device to the captive portal using an hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) redirect mechanism.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the captive portal server is a hotspot gateway comprising a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server, a domain name service (DNS), and a proxy server.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein a user of the mobile device is allowed to download a permanent version transient mobile application prior to leaving the restricted area.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the captive portal is a local captive portal.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the captive portal is a remote captive portal.

11. A method comprising:

using a mobile device to interact with a handover device;

providing network credentials, using the handover device, to the mobile device after the mobile device interacts with the handover device, wherein the mobile device automatically connects to a network after interacting with the handover device;

authorizing and authenticating the mobile device using a captive portal server;

connecting the mobile device to a captive portal using the captive portal server; and

hosting a transient mobile application using an application server, wherein

after connecting to the network and the captive portal, the mobile device is redirected to an address of the transient mobile application; and

the transient mobile application cannot be accessed outside a restricted area associated with the network.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the handover device is a near field communication (NFC) tag.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the handover device is a quick response (QR) code.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the network is a wireless local area network (WLAN).

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the handover device provides the network credentials to the mobile device using a static NFC handover technique.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the captive portal server connects the mobile device to the captive portal using an hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) redirect mechanism.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the captive portal server is a hotspot gateway comprising a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server, a domain name service (DNS), and a proxy server.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the captive portal is a local captive portal.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the captive portal is a remote captive portal.

20. A system comprising:

a mobile device;

a near field communication (NFC) tag to store wireless local area network (WLAN) login credentials and transmit the login credentials to the mobile device using a static connection handover protocol, wherein;

the mobile device is adapted to automatically connect to the WLAN after receiving the login credentials; and

the mobile device checks a standard public uniform resource locater (URL) to detect the presence of a captive portal;

a captive portal server to authorize and authenticate the mobile device and to connect the mobile device to the captive portal, wherein the captive portal server is a hotspot gateway comprising a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server, a domain name service (DNS), and a proxy server; and

an application server to host a hypertext-markup language 5 (HTML5) transient mobile application, wherein

after the mobile device is connected to the network and the captive portal, the captive portal server to redirect the mobile device to an address of the HTML5 transient mobile application using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) 302 redirect mechanism;

the mobile device is adapted to automatically launch a web browser application after being redirected by the captive portal server;

the HTML5 transient mobile application cannot be accessed outside a restricted area associated with the network; and

the HTML5 transient mobile application is packaged for being executed in WebViews on the mobile device.