Location-based network device operation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10057875-B2
Application number	US-201615337568-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 28, 2016
Priority date	Oct 28, 2016
Publication date	Aug 21, 2018
Grant date	Aug 21, 2018

Abstract

Example implementations relate to location-based network device operation. For example, a non-transitory machine-readable medium is described that stores instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to provide network permissions to a network device joining a network; responsive to acceptance of the network permissions, propagate a location policy to the network device; and modify an operating mode of the network device based on the determined location and the location policy.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to:
provide network permissions to a network device responsive to a request from the network device to join a network;
detect, from a packet transmitted between the network device and the network, a hardware configuration of the network device, responsive to the request;
detect a plurality of operation functions executable by the network device from the detected hardware configuration of the network device;
determine a location of the network device within a range of the network, responsive to the request;
determine a location policy for the network device based on the location of the network device and the plurality of operation functions;
responsive to acceptance of the network permissions, propagate the location policy to the network device; and
modify an operating mode of the network device based on the determined location, the determined plurality of operation functions, and the location policy, by modifying an operational setting on the network device to disable network transmissions from the network device.

2. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , the location being a first location within the range of the network and the operating mode being a first operating mode, further including instructions to:
determine a second location of the network device within the range of the network; and
modify the operating mode of the network device based on the second determined location and the location policy.

3. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , the instructions to:
determine that the network device is no longer in the first location; and
terminate the operating mode on the network device responsive to the determination that the network device is no longer in the first location.

4. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to modify the operating mode of the network device include instructions to modify a camera functionality of the network device.

5. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to modify the operating mode of the network device include instructions to modify a ring volume of the network device.

6. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to:
detect a network device within a range of a network controller;
provide network permissions to the network device responsive to a request from the network device to join a network provided by the network controller;
determine, by the network controller, a location of the network device within the range of the network controller, responsive to the request;
detect, from a packet transmitted between the network device and the network controller, a hardware configuration of the network device, responsive to the request;
detect by the network controller, a plurality of operation functions executable by the network device from the detected hardware configuration of the network device;
identify, by the network controller, a location policy for the network device based on the location of the network device and the operation functions; and
propagate an operating mode of the network device to the network device based on the location policy.

7. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 6 , including instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to determine a type of the network device and identify the location policy based on the type of the network device.

8. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 6 , including instructions to receive the location policy from a policy server.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 6 , including instructions to receive the operating mode from a location policy server.

10. A method, comprising:
discovering a first network device within a range of a network;
obtaining, by a second network device, user information responsive to the first network device accepting network permissions of the network;
obtaining by the second network device, from a packet transmitted between the first network device and the second network device, a hardware configuration of the first network device, responsive to the first network device accepting the network permissions;
identifying, by the second network device on the network, a plurality of operation functions executable by the first network device from the detected hardware configuration of the network device, responsive to the first network device accepting the network permissions;
identifying, at the second network device, a location policy based on the operation functions;
identifying a location of the first network device within the range of the second network device, responsive to the first network device accepting the network permissions; and
propagating the location policy to the first network device based on the user information, the operation functions and the location of the first network device, wherein the location policy modifies an ability of the first network device to perform an operation function.

11. The method of claim 10 including identifying the location of the first network device based on identification of an access point to which the first network device is connected.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein propagating the location policy to the first network device includes disabling a recording feature of the first network device while the first network device is in the location.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein propagating the location policy to the first network device includes disabling a notification feature of the first network device while the first network device is in the location.

Assignees

• Aruba Networks Inc
• Hewlett Packard Eneterprise Dev Lp

Inventors

• Upadhyaya Vigneshwara
• Nambisan Gopakumar

Classifications

• H04W64/003 Primary

  locating network equipment · CPC title

• H04W52/0251

  using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity · CPC title

• H04W4/029

  Location-based management or tracking services · CPC title

• H04W4/028

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M1/72463

  to restrict the functionality of the device · CPC title