Patent ID: 8170032

Claim:
A method for externally controlling and managing at least one wireless local area network subscriber assigned to at least one wireless local area network and capable of requesting services via a public TCP/IP network, the method comprising: receiving a service request through a first wireless local area network of a plurality of wireless local area networks from a wireless local area network subscriber; checking an authentication of the subscriber to access the TCP/IP network; establishing a connection through the first wireless network between the TCP/IP network and the subscriber if the subscriber has an authorization to access the TCP/IP network; transmitting at least one of signaling and information data via the TCP/IP network to a control and managing device connected to the TCP/IP network, wherein the control and managing device is external to a service provider associated with the at least one wireless local area network and to the plurality of wireless local area networks; registering, at the control and managing device, the authorization to access the TCP/IP network for the subscriber; permitting the wireless local area network subscriber to move from the first wireless local area network to a second wireless local area network, free of the checking step, using the authorization to access the TCP/IP network for the subscriber registered at the control and managing device; monitoring, at the control and managing device, usages of the plurality of the wireless local area networks as the subscriber moves from the first to the second wireless local area network; and ascertaining and logging, in the external control and managing device, a capacity usage of the first wireless local area network so as to enable, as a function of the capacity usage, the subscriber to be denied, at least temporarily, the authorization to access the TCP/IP network.