Patent ID: 8201226
Filing Date: 2012-06-12
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: authenticating a user of a client device by a network access device; and the network access device requiring the user to complete an educational assignment that is supplied to the user by the network access device prior to the user being granted access to a network, based on: selectively sending an education assignment request to an authorization server, by the network access device, in response to the network access device receiving a request from the client device for access to the network and based on the network access device determining the user requires educational authorization to access the network, the education assignment request including an identifier for identifying the user having been authenticated by the network access device, forwarding to the client device, by the network access device, the educational assignment received from the authorization server for completion by the user of the client device prior to the user being granted the access to the network, the educational assignment forwarded to the client device having not yet been successfully completed by the user, forwarding to the authorization server, by the network access device, a response representing an attempted completion of the educational assignment and having been received from the client device, and selectively authorizing, by the network access device, the access to the network by the client device based on a received authorization message from the authorization server relative to the response to the educational assignment, the received authorization message representing the educational authorization, the educational authorization granted to the user by the authorization server based on the user having successfully completed the educational assignment.