Automatically configuring computer network at hospitality establishment with reservation-specific settings

摘要

A system includes a storage device for storing details of a plurality of reservations of a hospitality establishment. A particular reservation includes a set of reservation-specific settings affecting behavior of the computer network at the hospitality establishment during the reservation. The settings may include a registered device setting for affecting behavior of a computer network at the hospitality establishment toward a user device having a specified device identifier. The system further includes a clock unit for tracking time, and a system controller coupled to the computer network and having access to the storage device and the clock unit. The system controller automatically configures one or more network components of the computer network when a start time of the particular reservation is reached in order to activate the reservation-specific settings.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a storage device storing details of a plurality of reservations of a hospitality establishment; wherein a particular reservation of the stored reservations includes a user isolation setting; a clock chip tracking time; a system controller coupled to a computer network at the hospitality establishment and having access to the storage device and the clock chip; and an access point coupled to the computer network and broadcasting a service set identifier (SSID) with which user devices may be wirelessly associated in order to utilize network resources made available during the particular reservation; wherein, when a start time of the particular reservation is reached, the system controller automatically configures the access point to selectively activate or deactivate client isolation for the SSID according to the user isolation setting of the particular reservation; when the user isolation setting of the particular reservation is yes, the system controller automatically configures the access point when the start time of the particular reservation is reached to activate the client isolation setting for the SSID and thereby prevent the user devices wirelessly associated with the SSID during the particular reservation from communicating with each other; and when the user isolation setting of the particular reservation is no, the system controller automatically configures the access point when the start time of the particular reservation is reached to deactivate the client isolation setting for the SSID and thereby enable the user devices wirelessly associated with the SSID during the particular reservation to communicate with each other.