Patent Document ID: 8660536
Application ID: 13708084
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A communication control system configured to allow a business to apply content control policies to all wireless communications received or sent by mobile devices within a circumscribed geographic area controlled by the business, the communication control system comprising: a. one or more corporate Internet connections; b. a processing system configured to perform a set of acts comprising: i. receiving, via one or more access points configured to receive communications from the mobile devices in the circumscribed geographic area controlled by the business, communications transmitted by the mobile devices within the circumscribed geographic region via one or more communication channels, wherein the one or more communication channels comprise a cellular channel provided by a third party wireless network provider, and wherein the one or more access points are configured to transmit, to the mobile devices within the circumscribed geographic area, a cellular signal stronger than a cellular signal provided by the third party wireless network provider in the circumscribed geographic area, causing any of the mobile devices in the circumscribed geographic region to be redirected to an access point of the one or more access points and unable to make a direct connection to the third party wireless network provider; ii. applying one or more policies to the communications received from the mobile devices, wherein applying the one or more policies comprises, for communications comprising requests for content to be provided via a network controlled by the third party wireless network provider, comparing the requests for content with a filtering policy comprising one or more restricted network destinations; iii. blocking communications not conforming to one or more policies, wherein, for communications comprising requests for content to be provided via the network controlled by the third party wireless network provider, blocking communications not conforming to one or more policies comprises preventing the communications from reaching the network controlled by the third party wireless network provider based on application of one or more policies to those communications; and iv. permitting communications conforming to the one or more policies, wherein, for communications comprising requests for content to be provided via the network controlled by the third party wireless network, permitting communications comprises sending the communications to the third party wireless network via a corporate Internet connection from the one or more corporate Internet connections.