Patent ID: 9549318
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of hardware address based registration of a computing device on a second network different from a first network, the method comprising: the computing device accessing a portal server via a network access device on the first network to initiate a hardware address-based registration; the computing device transmitting a token registration request to the portal server via the network access device, the token registration request received at the portal server from an IP address of the network access device; the computing device receiving a registration token from the portal server, the registration token comprising a unique subscriber identifier associated with a subscriber record, the registration token generated by the portal server in response to: the computing device storing the registration token in a memory; the computing device accessing the second network; and the computing device transmitting the registration token to the portal server via the second network to complete the hardware address-based registration, wherein the hardware address-based registration is completed by the portal server determining a hardware address of the computing device via the second network, determining the unique subscriber identifier from the registration token, and provisioning the hardware address of the computing device for use on the second network in association with the subscriber record.