Patent ID: 9325566
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: authenticating, by a user device, to a wireless communication network via an access point using credentials existing in the user device; based on an access-accept message to the access point from the wireless communication network, authenticating the user device being to the wireless communication network using the credentials and connecting to the wireless communication network; based on the authenticating, performing, by the user device, a hypertext transport protocol traffic test and a non-hypertext transport protocol traffic test with the wireless communication network, and based on at least one of the traffic tests failing, determining, by the user device, that subscription remediation is required by the user device, wherein a uniform resource indicator to a subscription remediation server is identified in the access-accept message; sending, by the user device, to the subscription remediation server via the uniform resource indicator a first hypertext transport protocol message comprising an indication that subscription remediation is required for the user device; in response to the sent first hypertext transport protocol message, receiving a second hypertext transport protocol response message from the subscription remediation server, where the second hypertext transport protocol response message comprises an indication of what the subscription remediation required for the user device is due to, wherein the subscription remediation that is required is due to at least an expiration of a password of the user device; and based on the second hypertext transport protocol response message, performing the subscription remediation with the subscription remediation server comprising automatically replacing at least the password with a new value of the password, and automatically initiating creation of a new client certificate using the new value of the password.