Centralized access control system and methods for distributed broadband access points

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9119225-B2
Application number	US-201213652657-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 16, 2012
Priority date	Feb 23, 2005
Publication date	Aug 25, 2015
Grant date	Aug 25, 2015

Abstract

A method includes automatically sending a request from a wireless access point to a configuration server during a power-up procedure for the wireless access point. The method includes receiving virtual private network tunnel parameters at the wireless access point from the configuration server in response to the request. The virtual private network tunnel parameters identify an access gateway. The method also includes establishing a virtual private network tunnel between the wireless access point and the centralized access gateway during the power-up procedure based on the virtual private network tunnel parameters. The virtual private network tunnel enables the wireless access point to provide one or more wireless devices access to a wide area network.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An access point comprising:
a processor;
a wide area network interface coupled to the processor; and
a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises instructions executable by the processor, upon power-up of the access point, to enable the access point to:
automatically send a request to a configuration server, wherein the request includes an identification of the access point, and wherein the request is sent directly to the configuratio…

Assignees

• At & T Ip I Lp

Inventors

• Muhamed Rias
• Doradla Anil Kumar
• Wolter David Randall

Classifications

• H04W12/02

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W76/022

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W76/02

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W28/16 Primary

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• H04L63/0272

  Electricity · mapped topic