Information security – Access control or authentication – Network
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-08
2006-08-08
Jung, David (Department: 2134)
Information security
Access control or authentication
Network
C713S152000, C713S100000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07089586
ABSTRACT:
In a computer telecommunications network, firewalls protect a machine or network from undesired message transmissions. In the case of a firewall employed on a user side of the wireless link, a message rejected by the firewall has already consumed the wireless resources required to transmit. A system for protecting a mobile wireless user via a firewall employed at the wired line, or ISP side, of the wireless link in a wireless network allows a specific user profile to be provided for each user that is indicative of a desired firewall configuration corresponding to the mobile user. A firewall configuration is established at a firewall application in a wireless transceiver corresponding to the current location of the mobile user, and the same firewall configuration is established, via a wireless handoff, at a second wireless transceiver when the user is located in the area corresponding to the second wireless transceiver, thereby protecting a plurality of wireless users prior to wasteful wireless transmission of undesired messages.
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Hamilton Brook Smith & Reynolds P.C.
IPR Licensing Inc.
Jung David
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