Patent ID: 11956635
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory storage medium comprising instructions that upon execution cause an access point to:
detect a client device seeking to connect to a network, wherein the client device is wirelessly connected to a wireless interface of the access point, and the access point is an intermediary between the client device and an authentication server;
send an identity-request from the access point to the client device, wherein the identity-request comprises a request for a device type of the client device, the identity-request is an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)-identity-request, and the EAP-identity-request comprises a request-device-data field set to True;
receive an identity-response at the access point from the client device, wherein the identity-response comprises a field included in the identity-response by the client device based on the request for the device type in the identity-request, the field comprising device-type information regarding the device type of the client device;
obtain the device-type information from the field in the identity-response;
send an access-request from the access point to the authentication server, wherein the access-request includes the device-type information obtained from the field in the identity-response;
receive an access-response at the access point from the authentication server, wherein the access-response is determined based on the device-type information included in the access-request; and
based on the access-response from the authentication server, negotiate, by the access point, with the client device for authentication of the client device, and enable access of the client device to the network based on the authentication of the client device.