Patent ID: 7284062

Claim:
In a computer system that is network connectable through an intermediary computer system to both a second network that includes a plurality of resources and to a first network that includes at least resources for provisioning the computer system to access the second network, the intermediary computer system determining whether data from the computer system is transferred to the first network or to the second network such that access to the first network can be allowed while access to the second network is restricted, the first network further including a server that can authorize computer systems to access the second network, a method of provisioning the computer system to access the second network so as to reduce user input, the method comprising the following: an act of sending credentials to the server to attempt to authenticate with the server; an act of automatically presenting a user-interface that can receive user-entered information so that a user of the computer system is not required to have prior knowledge of how to cause the user-interface to be presented; an act of receiving user-entered information into the user-interface; an act of submitting a first schema-based document that includes the user-entered information to the server; an act of, subsequent to submitting the first schema-based document, receiving a second schema-based document that provides an indication that the server authorized the computer system to access resources located on the second network; and an act of executing a third schema-based document to configure the computer system for accessing the second network so as to relieve a user from having to manually configure the computer system.