Patent ID: 8566912

Claim:
A method for determining whether to allow a network user communicating with a first access point within a privately controlled computer network including multiple access points to migrate from one access point to another access point at a different location without re-authentication, the method comprising: providing a plurality of network access points configured to provide one or more user device's access to a privately controlled computer network; defining migration permissions for migrating between individual network access locations in the plurality of network access locations, where the migration permissions establish migration rights between individual network access locations in the plurality of network access locations without requiring a user to re-login; allowing a user device to migrate from communicating with a first network access point in the plurality of network access points to a second network access point in the plurality of network access points without requiring the user to re-login based at least on the location of the first network access point; and requiring the user to re-login when migrating from the first network access point to a third network access point based at least on the location of the first network access point.