Patent ID: 9526063
Filing Date: 2016-12-20
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A system comprising: a storage device storing a plurality of stored reservations for a hospitality establishment; wherein a particular reservation of the stored reservations includes a registered device setting for affecting behavior of a network at the hospitality establishment toward a user device having a specified device identifier, and the registered device setting specifies that the user device having the specified device identifier is to be provided with a public internet protocol (IP) address during the particular reservation; a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server coupled to the network; a clock chip tracking time; and a system controller coupled to the network and having access to the storage device and the clock chip; wherein the system controller is operable to automatically configure the dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server via the network when a start time of the particular reservation is reached to thereby cause the dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server to assign an available public IP address when receiving a DHCP request from the specified device identifier; and the system controller is operable to automatically configure the dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server when an end time of the particular reservation is reached to thereby cause the dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server to assign an available private IP address when receiving a subsequent DHCP request from the specified device identifier; whereby, when the user device is connected to the network and requests an IP address during the particular reservation, the user device is assigned the available public IP address from the dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server; and when the user device is connected to the network and requests a new IP address after the end time of the particular reservation, the user device is assigned the available private IP address from the dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server.