Method and system for managing data traffic in wireless...

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2006-05-09

2006-05-09

Hoosain, Allan (Department: 2645)

Telephonic communications

Audio message storage, retrieval, or synthesis

Interaction with an external nontelephone network

C370S329000, C455S411000, C455S456300, C726S012000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07042988

ABSTRACT:
The present invention can be used to facilitate the integration of wireless capability provided by wireless access points into an enterprise computer network. A gateway server is interposed between wireless access points and protected networks to provide security and integration functions, for example, authentication, access control, link privacy, link integrity, and bandwidth metering in various embodiments. Use of such a gateway server allows substantial control to be gained over network access even with the use of relatively simple access points. In general, such a gateway server receives a request to access the protected network. An authentication subsystem of the gateway server authenticates the user, preferably by accessing an external authentication server and returns a role to the authenticated user. An access controller in the gateway server provides differential access to the protected network based on the user's assigned role. A multiple gateway servers can be connected together to form a mesh network architecture.

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