Allowing guest of hospitality establishment to utilize multiple guest devices to access network service

    公开(公告)号:US11145013B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-12

    申请号:US16820017

    申请日:2020-03-16

    Abstract: Network traffic, including a device identifier, is received from an unrecognized guest device on a computer network of a hospitality establishment. A user profile server is queried to determine a user identifier that is associated with the device identifier of the guest device. A properly management system is queried to determine whether the user identifier is associated with a current guest of the hospitality establishment, and, when yes, to determine a guest area registered to the current guest. A login database is queried to find an unexpired login record of an authorized guest device associated with the guest area, the unexpired login record granting the authorized guest device access to the network service for an allowed access duration. The unrecognized guest device is automatically granted access to the network service for a remaining portion of the allowed access duration of the unexpired login record.

    Captive portal that modifies content retrieved from requested web page for unauthorized client devices

    公开(公告)号:US11138325B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-05

    申请号:US16380628

    申请日:2019-04-10

    Inventor: David T. Ong

    Abstract: The described captive portal techniques cause client devices to display requested webpage for authorized device and modified content for unauthorized devices. One designated web page may be different than a requested web page such as when a client is not authorized to access the requested webpage and the requested webpage is not one of the walled garden websites. When the requested webpage is within walled garden website, the original content of the requested webpage is modified to include at least some original content. The captive portal may modify the designated web page to ensure that relative links lacking base domains now have specified base domains pointing to an authorized web server. Client web browser security measures related to redirection messages are thereby bypassed and load on the captive portal is minimal. The client device may also be prevented from caching the modified content of the requested web page.

    ALLOWING GUEST OF HOSPITALITY ESTABLISHMENT TO UTILIZE MULTIPLE GUEST DEVICES TO ACCESS NETWORK SERVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20200219211A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-09

    申请号:US16820017

    申请日:2020-03-16

    Abstract: Network traffic, including a device identifier, is received from an unrecognized guest device on a computer network of a hospitality establishment. A user profile server is queried to determine a user identifier that is associated with the device identifier of the guest device. A properly management system is queried to determine whether the user identifier is associated with a current guest of the hospitality establishment, and, when yes, to determine a guest area registered to the current guest. A login database is queried to find an unexpired login record of an authorized guest device associated with the guest area, the unexpired login record granting the authorized guest device access to the network service for an allowed access duration. The unrecognized guest device is automatically granted access to the network service for a remaining portion of the allowed access duration of the unexpired login record.

    DNS-BASED CAPTIVE PORTAL WITH INTEGRATED TRANSPARENT PROXY TO PROTECT AGAINST USER DEVICE CACHING INCORRECT IP ADDRESS

    公开(公告)号:US20200067886A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-27

    申请号:US16673079

    申请日:2019-11-04

    Abstract: A server in a captive portal accepts a connection from a user device to the IP address of the server and receives a HTTP or HTTPS request over the connection. The connection may be a result of the user device being previously determined to be not logged in, and consequently provided the IP address of the server as a DNS resolved IP address, the user device thereafter caching the IP address of the server. The server responds with requested content if the target host of the request is a local host. If the target host is a remote destination, the server queries a login database to determine whether the user device is logged in. The server acts as a transparent proxy between the user device and the remote destination if the user device is logged in, else the server sends alternate content to the user device over the connection.

    WALLED GARDEN SYSTEM WITH CLEARED IPS LIST AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED FROM DNS QUERIES

    公开(公告)号:US20180124016A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-03

    申请号:US15796382

    申请日:2017-10-27

    Inventor: David T. Ong

    Abstract: A walled garden system includes a firewall controlling access between a first network and a second network at least by allowing connection requests originating from a user device on the first network to a destination IP address on the second network in response to determining that the destination IP address matches a cleared IP address on a cleared IP addresses list. A controller receives a domain name service (DNS) reply from a DNS server on the second network, and determines whether a domain name specified within the DNS reply matches a cleared domain name on a cleared domain names list. In response to determining that the domain name specified within the DNS reply matches the cleared domain name on the cleared domain names list, the controller adds a resolved IP address specified in the DNS reply to the cleared IP addresses list as a new cleared IP address.

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