Patent ID: 8381270

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a first computing device, one or more communications from a second device, wherein the one or more communications are transmitted using a short range wireless communication protocol, and wherein the one or more communications include network configuration information usable to connect the first computing device to a first network and network authentication information; configuring the first computing device to connect to the first network using the network configuration information; and automatically connecting the first computing device to the first network by at least submitting, by the first computing device using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) authentication mechanism, the authentication information to a third computing device that manages access to a second network accessible by the first network, wherein automatically connecting the first computing device to the first network by at least submitting the authentication information to the third computing device comprises: responsive to configuring the first computing device to connect to the first network, automatically launching a web browser of the first computing device to connect to the first network, wherein the web browser provides an HTTP authentication form; and automatically populating, with the first computing device, the HTTP authentication form using the authentication information.