US 12,074,859 B2
Password-less wireless authentication
Bart A. Brinckman, Nevele (BE); and Eyal Shiber Shalev, Haifa (IL)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc.
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/045,929.
Application 18/045,929 is a continuation of application No. 16/856,773, filed on Apr. 23, 2020, granted, now 11,503,009.
Prior Publication US 2023/0056374 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04W 12/069 (2021.01)
CPC H04L 63/0807 (2013.01) [H04L 63/102 (2013.01); H04L 63/205 (2013.01); H04W 12/069 (2021.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
providing, by an identity broker service, a device token to a user device associated with a user, the device token being tied to a profile;
receiving, by the identity broker service after providing the device token, the device token and network policies in response to the user device attempting to attach to a network, wherein a tunnel is created between the network and the identity broker service in response to the user device attempting to attach to the network, wherein the device token and the network policies are received by the identity broker service over the tunnel, and wherein the identity broker service assigns user policies associated with use of a plurality of access tokens associated with the user; and
determining, by the identity broker service, that the user policies and the network policies are congruent.