William Earl York

US Patent:

20030033356, Feb 13, 2003

Filed:

Aug 13, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/929477

Inventors:

Luu Tran - Santa Clara CA, US
William York - Brighton CO, US
Jeff Blattman - San Jose CA, US

International Classification:

G06F015/16

US Classification:

709/203000

Abstract:

A wireless portal system having a wireless server with an automatic client aware detection mechanism. The client aware detection mechanism includes logic for identifying client wireless devices connected to the wireless server by using particular characteristics of the client in detecting service connection requests from the client to the server. In one embodiment of the invention, the client aware detection mechanism is capable of being extended by the client to add-on client information characteristics which are not already pre-stored in the wireless server. In this way, the client detection logic of the invention is extensible to recognize new devices without requiring software version updates or complex programming tasks. An API can be used to collect extensible data sets that include custom parameters for recognizing a particular client class, such as defined header information of the client's browser, the time of day the client requests are received and the client's bandwidth.

US Patent:

20030033524, Feb 13, 2003

Filed:

Aug 13, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/929476

Inventors:

Luu Tran - Santa Clara CA, US
Bina Keshava - Union City CA, US
William York - Brighton CO, US

International Classification:

H04L009/00

US Classification:

713/168000, 380/247000

Abstract:

A wireless portal system having a wireless server with a client aware authentication system. The client aware authentication system includes logic for automatically identifying client wireless devices connecting to the wireless server by using particular characteristics of the client in granting service connection requests from the client to the server. Depending on the client type, one or more, client-specific authentication modules are selected for the Client. In this way, the invention provides dynamic selection of authentication modules based on the Client type of an identified client. In one embodiment of the invention, the client aware authentication system includes extensible modular authentication parameters that allows the client to add-on client information characteristics which are not already pre-stored in the wireless server.