US 12,289,317 B2
Aggregation of network access to tenant spaces of multi-tenant structures
Stephen Hon, Indianapolis, IN (US)
Assigned to Xiber, LLC, Indianapolis, IN (US)
Filed by Xiber, LLC, Indianapolis, IN (US)
Filed on Aug. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/878,222.
Application 17/878,222 is a continuation of application No. 16/827,069, filed on Mar. 23, 2020, granted, now 11,405,405.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/822,162, filed on Mar. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0164146 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/107 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An access control system for aggregating control of access to a network for a plurality of tenant space network devices, each tenant space network device being located in a different tenant space of a plurality of tenant spaces that are distributed among a plurality of multi-tenant structures, the access control system comprising:
a plurality of network access control systems, each of the plurality of network access control systems having a unique circuit identifier and communicatively coupled to a central network aggregation control system via a circuit that corresponds to the unique circuit identifier, a network access control system of the plurality of network access control systems being located in each multi-tenant structure of the plurality of multi-tenant structures, each network access control system is configured to:
retrieve a plurality of network access parameters from the central network aggregation control system for each of the plurality of tenant space network devices located at the multi-tenant structure at which the network access control system is located, each network access parameter of the plurality of network access parameters being based at least on a access level to the network selected, from different available access levels, in a tenant agreement to inhabit a tenant space of the plurality of tenant spaces, as provided by the central network aggregation control system, the access level to the network being selected for an associated tenant space network device of the plurality of tenant space network devices,
retrieve, from the central network aggregation control system, an identification of at least another network access parameter to revoke based on an expiration of another tenant agreement to inhabit the tenant space of the plurality of tenant spaces;
identify the tenant space network device for each corresponding tenant space in the multi-tenant structure at which the corresponding network access control system is located by an identifier that is unique to each tenant space network device, and
provide, based on the access level indicated by the tenant agreement, both a control plane that controls access to the network by the tenant space network device, and a data plane that controls data that is deliverable to the tenant space network device.