Patent ID: 9743436
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a computer hosting a registry computing service, from a client device a request to register a first network identifier of a first wireless network, the first network identifier including a first substring indicating a network classification type for the first wireless network; parsing the first network identifier to extract substrings from the first network identifier; determining if a check on the substrings extracted from the first network identifier is satisfied, said check being satisfied if any of the substrings extracted from the first network identifier matches a stored type of substring; when said determining determines that said check is not satisfied, performing a default network identifier registration action including storing, by the computer, the first network identifier into a wireless registry that includes records of one or more other network identifiers; and when said determining determines that said check is satisfied, performing the default network identifier registration action when there is no action associated with a matching stored type of substring and performing an action associated with the matching stored type of substring when there is an action associated with the matching stored type of substring; receiving, by the computer, a query including a wireless network identifier from a second client device; determining, by the computer, if there is a match between the wireless network identifier included in the query and a stored network identifier included in said wireless registry; performing, in response to determining that there is a match, an action associated in the wireless registry with the wireless network identifier that matches the wireless network identifier included in the query, said performing an action associated in the wireless registry with the wireless network identifier that matches the wireless network identifier included in the query including returning an authentication protocol and a link to an interface to the second client device; and wherein the interface is an interface of a machine, the method further comprising using information stored in the wireless registry to verify that the second client device and machine are in proper geophysical locations.