Patent ID: 9654970
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of managing WiFi roaming comprising: receiving, at an access point (AP) which supports wireless Internet service for a mobile station, an HTTP request of the mobile station; redirecting, by the AP, the HTTP request of the mobile station from the AP to a web server over a network, wherein in the redirected HTTP request, a source IP address is replaced with an IP address of an access controller (AC) instead of an IP address of the AP; in response to said redirecting the HTTP request, receiving, by the web server, a MAC address of the mobile station from the mobile station, and requesting authentication by transmitting to the AC corresponding to the replaced source IP address, login information comprising the MAC address of the mobile station; performing, by the AC, control via MAC address authentication of the mobile station through communication with an authentication server over the network such that the authentication server starts accounting in response to the MAC address of the mobile station received by the authentication server from the AC being found in a database at the authentication server; permitting, by the AC, association of the mobile station with the AP based on said performing control via the MAC address authentication; and receiving, by the authentication server via the AC, accounting information from the AP to which the mobile station is connected and processing, by the authentication server, statistics of the received accounting information for the mobile station.