AUTHENTICATED REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS FOR WEB ACCESS AT LIVE EVENTS

摘要

A captive portal technology for registering and authenticating attendees, and for collecting the personal-preferences and social-profile details of individuals participating in a live-event in real-time, is disclosed. Wi-Fi connections within the live-event location are used to register and authenticate the individuals onto a proxy server. Once registered and authenticated, the proxy-server enables a monitoring main server to collect and store the preferences, activities and social profile of the individual in a dedicated database. The authentication provides the individual access to the web for social networking, blogging and other activities at the live-event site. Authorities of live-events are thereby able can identify the individual participants and their habits to provide real time information to improve ticket sales methods, provide incentives, on-site purchase capability and focused advertisements relating to the live-event to improve the live event experience of each individual.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a plurality of wireless access points distributed in a plurality of venues, wherein at least one mobile device is configured to wirelessly connect to one of the plurality of wireless access points during a live event at one of the plurality of venues; an access controller at each of the plurality of venues, the access controller connected to the plurality of wireless access points; and a proxy server connected to the access controller at each of the plurality of venues, the proxy server further connected to a network so that a network access request from the at least one mobile device received during the live event is delivered to the proxy server through the access controller at the venue where the at least one mobile device is located, wherein the proxy server determines whether the at least one mobile device is authenticated with the proxy server, and, if the at least one mobile device is not authenticated at the proxy server, the proxy server enables delivery of a webpage for an approved social network to the at least one mobile device, and wherein the proxy server authenticates the at least one mobile device after the at least one mobile device registers with the approved social network.