CPC H04L 63/0876 (2013.01) [H04L 63/0236 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 63/105 (2013.01); H04L 63/126 (2013.01); H04L 63/168 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |
1. A method comprising:
updating, by one or more processors, usage information associated with an authentication credential with a media access control address (MAC address) that corresponds to a respective computing device in response to the respective computing device checking out the authentication credential;
receiving, by one or more processors, a login request that includes the authentication credential from a computing device;
fetching, by one or more processors, a MAC address of the computing device that sent the login request;
validating, by one or more processors, the authentication credential and the MAC address;
maintaining, by one or more processors, the MAC address that corresponds to the respective computing device associated with the authentication credential, after the respective computing device checks in the authentication credential, until a second computing device checks out the authentication credential; and
updating, by one or more processors, the usage information associated with the authentication credential with a second MAC address that corresponds to the second computing device, in response to the second computing device checking out the authentication credential.
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