Boingo Wireless Awarded Patent for Accessing Networks by a Mobile Device
June 23, 2009 9:01 AM | Technology | Comments (1)
| Boingo Wireless, the world’s largest Wi-Fi network, announces that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company patent No. 7,483,984, covering the method and apparatus for accessing networks by a mobile device. The patent advances the company’s client technology for detection, association and logging into wireless networks, on any device. The methods covered by the patent include accessing wireless carrier networks by mobile computing devices, where a client software application hosted by the device accesses carrier networks using wireless access points. For example, when a computer – or netbook, smartphone or any other Wi-Fi-enabled device – is in a location where there are multiple signals, the patented technology looks at each signal and alerts the user which signal will work, showing the signal as an understandable name and ID for the user. The patent covers all wireless technologies and spectrums, as well as any mobile device that access wireless hotspots. |  |
Currently, Boingo Wireless has other patents pending that also involve automatic network selection and authentication, as well as client technology for the detection, association and logging on to networks.
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Posted by: Amy Hass | June 7, 2009 9:57 AM
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