Patent ID: 8316438
Filing Date: 2012-11-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method to be executed by a network management tool on a personal computer, comprising: monitoring a first computing device and a second computing device, which are configured to achieve connectivity to a computing network via wireless connections; determining that the second computing device is not connected to the computing network; synchronizing a list of device operations in the second computing device with a list of device operations in the first computing device when the second computing device is connected to the computing network such that the second device has a list of device operations that occurred when the second device was offline; receiving health or security information for the first and second computing devices to be combined and subsequently rendered on a display of the personal computer; and filtering which devices are permitted to connect to the computing network through a wireless gateway device provisioned for providing the wireless connections in a single residence of a residential environment in which the first computing device and the second computing device are operating and wherein the network management tool is configured to: