Patent ID: 11936619
Assignee: SOPHOS LIMITED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 21:
22. A method for operating a wireless access point in an enterprise network, the method comprising:
establishing a secure wireless link with an endpoint of an enterprise network;
establishing a secure channel with a supervisor for the enterprise network;
receiving information about network usage from the endpoint through the secure wireless link;
monitoring a quality of service of the secure wireless link;
transmitting one or more characteristics of the quality of service of the secure wireless link to the supervisor;
routing the information about network usage received from the endpoint through the wireless access point to the supervisor in a secure tunnel including the secure wireless link with the endpoint and the secure channel with the supervisor; and
transmitting a command, based on the information about network usage received from the endpoint, to make a change to a network setting of the wireless access point, the command being transmitted through the secure wireless link to a process executing on the wireless access point.