Systems and methods for controlling device network access through a wireless router

摘要

Systems and methods are provided for enabling communications over a wide area network and a local area network, wherein one or more computing devices may communicate with a wireless router over the local area network, and wherein the one or more computing devices may obtain access to the wide area network if authorized. Authorization of the one or more computing devices can be dependent upon discovery of the one or more computing devices, as well as a device type of the one or more computing devices. Authorization may also involve discovering a service being run or requested by the one or more computing devices, and determining whether the type of service being run or requested by the one or more computing devices is authorized by the wide area network.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
loading modem instructions and router instructions into a wireless router; generating a modem function pointer table populated with pointers to modem functions in the modem instructions for controlling access over a wide area network; generating a router function table populated with pointers to router functions in the router instructions for controlling access over the local area network; wherein the modem function pointer table is also populated with pointers to relevant functions in the router instructions and the router function table is populated with pointers to relevant functions in the modem instructions; and wherein the router function table includes a pointer to a filter task in the router instructions; loading authentication procedures required to connect to the wide area network and settings for the local area network into the wireless router; establishing a first data connection between the wireless router and a base station associated the wide area network over the wide area network using the loaded authentication procedures; establishing a second data connection between the wireless router and at least one computing device over the local area network using the loaded settings for the local area network; discovering the at least one computing device and a device type of the at least one computing device; and determining, based on the filter task and device type of the at least one computing device, whether the at least one computing device is authorized to access the wide area network.