Gateway router supporting session hand-off and content sharing among clients of a local area network

摘要

A gateway router is positioned at a boundary of a local area network and a wide area network. The gateway router supports hand-off among client device and/or user accounts for network communications sessions with a network device of the wide area network. The gateway router further supports content sharing among client devices and/or user accounts via the gateway router over the local area network. Data resources in the form of account information, files, applications, session state information, etc. may be stored at the gateway router to facilitate hand-off and/or content sharing among the clients of the local area network.

主权项

1. A method for a gateway router, the method comprising:
establishing a network communications session in the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model for a first client device of a wireless local area network with a network device of a wide area network via the gateway router, the gateway router positioned at a boundary between the wireless local area network and the wide area network; associating the first client device with a client identity; obtaining state information at an application layer (Layer 7) in the OSI model for the network communications session for the first client device, the state information including a browser cookie or a web cookie communicated between the first client device and the network device via the gateway router during the network communications session; storing the state information for the network communications session in a profile of the client identity; receiving a grant of permission for a second client device of the wireless local area network to access the state information stored in the profile of the client identity; receiving web page code of a web page served by another network device of the wide area network; inserting dedicated router interface code in the web page code to include a dedicated router interface along with the web page; serving the web page code with the inserted dedicated router interface code to the second client device via the wireless local area network to cause the web page and the dedicated router interface to be displayed at the second client device with the dedicated router interface proximate the web page or with the web page; receiving a first user input via the second client device over the wireless local area network, the first user input directed at a router interface selector of the dedicated router interface; responsive to the first user input, serving one or more user interfaces to the second client device via the wireless local area network, the one or more user interfaces including one or more additional selector to access the network communications session of the first client device based on the grant of permission; receiving one or more additional user inputs via the second client device over the wireless local area network, the one or more additional user inputs directed at the one or more additional selectors indicating selection of the network communications session of the first client device; and responsive to the one or more additional user inputs, establishing continuation of the network communications session of the second client device of the wireless local area network with the network device via the gateway router based, at least in part, on the state information for the network communications session stored in the profile of the client identity.