Patent ID: 8958399
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling connectivity based on content within a first wireless network comprising: receiving, using parental control software implemented on a firewall, content control parameters; monitoring, using a connectivity control device separate from the firewall and outside of a protected network, access to one or more websites based on the content control parameters; logging a plurality of wireless identifiers of computers within the first wireless network into the connectivity control device; identifying at least one computer as a protected computer using a logged wireless identifier of the plurality of logged wireless identifiers; determining, based on the content control parameters of the parental control software of the firewall, that connectivity controls are to be enforced with the at least one protected computer associated with a specified user for a current time period; identifying, via at least one computer processor, at least one unauthorized access attempt of the at least one protected computer to an unauthorized wireless access point that is within wireless communication range of the at least one protected computer and outside of the protected network, wherein identifying the at least one unauthorized access attempt comprises determining that the unauthorized wireless access point is not on a list of authorized network nodes; identifying one or more channels used by the unauthorized wireless access point; and continuously transmitting, using the connectivity control device separate from the firewall and outside of the protected network, a disruptive wireless signal to the unauthorized wireless access point to disrupt a communication between the at least one protected computer and the unauthorized wireless access point in response to the identified unauthorized access attempt of the at least one protected computer to the unauthorized wireless access point and the determination that the connectivity controls for the at least one protected computer are to be enforced based on the content control parameters, wherein the continuously transmitted disruptive wireless signal disrupts the communication between the at least one protected computer and the unauthorized access point, and wherein, in an event a second protected computer that is not enforced based on the content control parameter, communications between the second protected computer and the unauthorized wireless access point are not disrupted.