Generating sequenced instructions for connecting through captive portals

摘要

Embodiments produce a set of instructions for connecting to a network through a network access point based on data crowdsourced from mobile computing devices. The crowdsourced data describes interactions between the mobile computing devices and the network access point when establishing a connection to the network. A cloud service analyzes the crowdsourced data to identify a set of instructions for association with the network access point. The mobile computing devices replay the set of instructions when subsequently attempting to connect to the network access point.

主权项

1. A system for producing a set of instructions for connecting to a network through a captive portal based on data crowdsourced from mobile computing devices, said system comprising:
a memory area associated with a computing device, said memory area storing manual portal assist data received from a first set of mobile computing devices, the manual portal assist data describing actions performed by users when connecting to networks through captive portals with the first set of mobile computing devices; and a processor programmed to:
for at least one of the captive portals, analyze the manual portal assist data stored in the memory area for the captive portal;construct one or more sign-on signatures for the at least one captive portal based on the analysis;enumerate a set of sequenced instructions for the captive portal based on the analysis and the one or more sign-on signatures; anddistribute the enumerated set of sequenced instructions to a second set of the mobile computing devices, the second set of the mobile computing devices applying the distributed set of sequenced instructions when attempting to connect through the captive portal.