Patent ID: 9614844
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving data transmitted from a computing device via a communications link between a networked computing device and a portal computing device; determining at the portal computing device that a radio frequency signal strength associated with the data transmitted from the computing device is above a threshold value; extracting credential data from the data at the networked computing device; extracting location data from the data at the networked computing device, the location data describing a location of the computing device; determining at the networked computing device, based on the radio frequency signal strength being above the threshold value, that the credential data matches an access credential in a data storage resource to authenticate an identity and to form authenticated identity data; determining at the networked computing device that the location data is within a threshold of an allowable distance from an allowable location in the data storage resource to validate the computing device and to form validated location data; and allowing data communications access to the networked computing device based on either the authenticated identity data, the validated location data, or both.