Patent ID: 6425010
Filing Date: 2002-07-23
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
Steered Internet access where a dial-up user is first steered to services of a sponsor and thereafter gets unlimited access to Internet, characterized (1) in that the steering is handled by an Internet Access Provider (IAP) based on contents of a sponsor-specific access list including one or more Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of a server controlled by the sponsor, and determination when unlimited access should be granted is handled by the sponsor, (2) by sponsor specific tunneling of Point to Point Protocol (PPP) sessions between a Network Access Server (NAS) and an Internet router of the IAP in case the NAS is not capable of steering Internet access, (3) by automatic installation of the sponsor-specific access list for the user in the NAS or, in case of tunneling, in the Internet router, after termination of the PPP login sessions, and (4) by removal of the sponsor-specific access list after notification by the sponsor.