Patent ID: 11962583
Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. An access point device that is connected via a second network to an authentication server device which, in response to a network access authentication request issued with respect to a first network, performs an authentication operation based on first-type authentication information, the access point device comprising:
a transfer processing unit that, when the network access authentication request is received from a device and when second-type authentication information is not included in the network access authentication request, transfers the network access authentication request to the authentication server device; and
a device authentication processing unit that, when the second-type authentication information is included in the network access authentication request and when an authentication operation in the access point device is enabled, performs an authentication operation based on the second-type authentication information.