Systems and methods for providing content and services on a network system

摘要

Systems and methods for managing and providing content and services on a network system. Aspects of the invention include location-based determination of network content and services that may be provided to client computers. Other aspects of the invention include authorization and authentication components that determine access rights of client computers. Additional aspects include systems and methods for redirecting client computers to different network content. The disclosed systems and methods may be used in numerous network system applications.

主权项

1. A method of managing network access, the method comprising:
receiving at a network communications port a request from a computer for access to a destination address external to a computer network; redirecting the computer to a portal page; receiving authentication-related information from the computer; formatting the authentication-related information into a predetermined data format corresponding to a property management system (PMS) protocol; and transmitting the formatted authentication-related information to a PMS device; wherein the PMS device is configured to automatically associate a billing entry to a customer's account for network access by utilizing the formatted authentication-related information; and wherein no specialized software configured for the computer network is required to be installed on the computer for the computer to communicate with the computer network.