Patents Assigned to Devicescape Software, Inc.
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Patent number: 8532028Abstract: Systems and methods for obtaining network credentials are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving, with a digital device, a network identifier from a network device, providing a first credential request including the network identifier to another digital device on a network, receiving a request for additional network information from the other digital device, providing a second credential request including additional network information to the other digital device, receiving a credential request response including network credentials from the other digital device, and providing the network credentials from the credential request response to a network device.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2010Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Devicescape Software, Inc.Inventors: John Gordon, David Whedon Kimdon
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Patent number: 8353007Abstract: Exemplary systems and methods for identifying a wireless network are provided. In exemplary embodiments, a method includes at least a digital device receiving network information associated with a network, generating an access identifier based on the network information, generating a credential request including the access identifier, providing the credential request to a credential server, receiving a credential request response from the credential server, the credential request response comprising network credentials to access the network, and providing the network credentials to a network device to access the network.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Devicescape Software, Inc.Inventor: John Gordon
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Patent number: 8196188Abstract: Exemplary methods and systems for providing network credentials are described. An exemplary method includes receiving a credential request from a digital device over a network device, identifying a network record based on at least some information within the credential request, retrieving a network credential from a plurality of network credentials based on the network record, and transmitting a credential request response containing the network credentials from the plurality of network credentials to the digital device.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2007Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Devicescape Software, Inc.Inventors: Simon Wynn, John Gordon
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Patent number: 8194589Abstract: Systems and methods for wireless network selection based on attributes stored in a network database are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving a network identifier associated with a wireless network, determining if a network profile associated with the network identifier is stored within a network profile database comprising a plurality of network profiles, and if the network profile associated with the network identifier is stored within the network profile database, retrieving the network profile, or if the network profile associated with the network identifier is not stored within the network profile database, initiating the network profile, obtaining an attribute associated with the network device identifier, and storing the attribute within the network profile.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2008Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Devicescape Software, Inc.Inventors: Simon Wynn, David Fraser
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Patent number: 8191124Abstract: Exemplary methods and systems for acquiring network credentials for network access are described. The exemplary method includes receiving network configuration information from a network device on a communication network, generating a credential request, transmitting the credential request to a credential server over a standard protocol of the network device, receiving the credential request response, and providing a network credential from the credential request response to the network device to access the communication network.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2007Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Devicescape Software, Inc.Inventors: Simon Wynn, John Gordon
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Publication number: 20100263022Abstract: Exemplary systems and methods for enhanced smartclient support are provided. In various embodiments, a method comprises receiving, by a digital device, an authentication reply message associated with a wireless network, the authentication reply message indicating whether authentication is successful and indicating whether the digital device has been granted access to the wireless network, identifying, with the digital device, a URL message within the authentication reply message, and displaying content from a URL of the URL message on the digital device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2010Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: Devicescape Software, Inc.Inventors: Simon Wynn, John Gordon
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Publication number: 20100095359Abstract: Exemplary systems and methods for identifying a wireless network are provided. In exemplary embodiments, a method includes at least a digital device receiving network information associated with a network, generating an access identifier based on the network information, generating a credential request including the access identifier, providing the credential request to a credential server, receiving a credential request response from the credential server, the credential request response comprising network credentials to access the network, and providing the network credentials to a network device to access the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: Devicescape Software, Inc.Inventor: John Gordon
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Patent number: 7660883Abstract: A network monitoring system monitors a data network and enables observation of the data network state in the present or any arbitrary previous time. The system maintains an object-oriented network model that mirrors the state of network devices. A network data repository stores and maintains the network model. The network model retains a history of network events, enabling the system to reconstruct the state of all or a portion of the devices in the network at any previous time. The network data repository detects network devices on the data network to be monitored, communicates with network devices, monitors the state of network devices, receives and records network events, provides device and network state information to client applications, and manages data storage. Client applications can rewind and replay the history of the network model, allowing the observation of network devices and all of their state data at any prior time.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2006Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Devicescape Software, Inc.Inventor: Bradley G. Fowlow
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Publication number: 20090028082Abstract: Systems and methods for wireless network selection based on attributes stored in a network database are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving a network identifier associated with a wireless network, determining if a network profile associated with the network identifier is stored within a network profile database comprising a plurality of network profiles, and if the network profile associated with the network identifier is stored within the network profile database, retrieving the network profile, or if the network profile associated with the network identifier is not stored within the network profile database, initiating the network profile, obtaining an attribute associated with the network device identifier, and storing the attribute within the network profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2008Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: Devicescape Software, Inc.Inventors: Simon Wynn, David Fraser
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Publication number: 20090024550Abstract: Systems and methods for selecting a wireless network are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving a first network device identifier for a first network device and a second network device identifier for a second network device, obtaining a first network profile comprising a first attribute, the first network profile based on the first network device identifier, obtaining a second network profile comprising a second attribute, the second network profile based on the second network device identifier, and selecting either the first network device identifier or the second network device identifier based on an attribute analysis of the first attribute and the second attribute.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2008Publication date: January 22, 2009Applicant: Devicescape Software, Inc.Inventors: Simon Wynn, David Fraser
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Publication number: 20070014248Abstract: A network monitoring system monitors a data network and enables observation of the data network state in the present or any arbitrary previous time. The system maintains an object-oriented network model that mirrors the state of network devices. A network data repository stores and maintains the network model. The network model retains a history of network events, enabling the system to reconstruct the state of all or a portion of the devices in the network at any previous time. The network data repository detects network devices on the data network to be monitored, communicates with network devices, monitors the state of network devices, receives and records network events, provides device and network state information to client applications, and manages data storage. Client applications can rewind and replay the history of the network model, allowing the observation of network devices and all of their state data at any prior time.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2006Publication date: January 18, 2007Applicant: Devicescape Software, Inc.Inventor: Bradley Fowlow
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Publication number: 20050286446Abstract: A wireless access point includes an ability to transmit signals over a plurality of channels and receive signals over the plurality of channels and have means for synchronizing transmission on a first channel to a first station and transmission on a second channel to a second station, such that acknowledgements are not expected from one of the first and second stations while transmitting frames to one or more of the first and second stations, means for transmitting over at least two of the plurality of channels simultaneously, means for receiving over at least two of the plurality of channels simultaneously. The number of channels might differ from implementation to implementation, but allows for simultaneous communication over the multiple channels with synchronization such that transmission on a channel is done while not expecting acknowledgements on any of the other channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2005Publication date: December 29, 2005Applicant: Devicescape Software Inc.Inventor: Simon Barber