Patent ID: 7715851

Claim:
A method comprising: retrieving, at a first device, a WAP identifier over a wireless connection corresponding to a wireless access point to which the first device is wirelessly connected; identifying, at the first device, a physical location based upon the retrieved WAP identifier; determining, at the first device, that the first device is connected to a computer network over at least two separate connections, wherein a first connection is the wireless connection and a second connection is a wired connection; in response to determining that the first device is connected to the computer network over at least two separate connections, requesting, by the first device, location specific settings from a second device, wherein the request includes the WAP identifier; in response to receiving the request that includes the WAP identifier at the second device, retrieving at the second device the location specific settings that correspond to the WAP identifier from a nonvolatile data store; transmitting the location specific settings from the second device to the first device over the wired connection; receiving at the first device the location specific settings over the wired connection from the second device that correspond to the identified physical location; and applying the location specific settings at the first device.