Access control interfaces for enhanced wireless router

摘要

A wireless router provides access control to information resources stored at the wireless router. The wireless router supports user profiles and/or device profiles that respectively enable user level and/or device level access control. The wireless router may register users via a user registration interface presented by the client device. The wireless router may register client devices using a device identifier. Requests to initiate a communication session may be received by the wireless router from client devices over a wireless local area network. The wireless router may authenticate a client device based on a device identifier and/or authenticate a user based on user credentials obtained via a login interface presented by the client device. The wireless router may control access to information resources stored at the wireless router during the communication session based, at least in part, on access privileges for the authenticated client device and/or authenticated user.

主权项

1. A wireless networking method, comprising:
receiving a request from a client device at a wireless router to initiate a communication session over a wireless local area network of the wireless router; establishing the communication session between the wireless router and the client device over the wireless local area network; storing session information from the communication session in a local data store of the wireless router; updating historical router-device communications data including router-device connection statistics based on the session information; transmitting the historical router-device communications data including the router-device connection statistics to a remote server for storage via a wide area network; wherein the request to initiate the communication session includes or is followed by another request initiated by the client device for an information resource stored at the wireless router; and controlling access by the client device to the information resource stored at the wireless router during the communication session based, at least in part, on access privileges for the client device stored in a profile at the wireless router.