Patent ID: 7756509

Claim:
A method comprising: determining that a wireless device in a packet-based network is an unauthenticated wireless device based upon a failed authentication process; establishing a data-bearing path with the unauthenticated wireless device; generating an access profile associated with a user of the unauthenticated wireless device, wherein the access profile includes one or more classification rules to establish one or more packet filters; transmitting the access profile to the unauthenticated wireless device in the packet-based network, wherein the access profile is configured to prevent the unauthenticated wireless device from transmitting one or more requests for network services, over the data-bearing path, that are unavailable to unauthenticated wireless devices; and providing access of a subset of the network services associated with the packet-based network to the unauthenticated wireless device over the data-bearing path based on the access profile.