Systems and methods of geo-location based community of interest
View Patent ↗The embodiments described herein recite a geo-location based community of interest (COI) system and method that add the capability to configure Network Connect Devices (NCD) to identify the location of the source and destination IP addresses. The NCDS may drop any packets that are destined to an IP address outside of its predefined radius. For any sent/received packets, the geo-location position of the remote IP-address on the wide area network (WAN) may be determined. The distance between two points on the earth given their latitudes and longitudes of the devices may be determined. If the distance is greater than the predefined range, the data packets may be denied. If the distance falls within the pre-determined range, the data packets are allowed to reach their destination.
1. A computer implemented method comprising:
transmitting, by a host server to a router, a request to access a destination device with a pre-determined zone from a zone-based authentication mechanism (ZAM) application for an electronic device;
transmitting, by the host server to the router, the geo-location of the IP address of the electronic device;
when the ZAM application for the electronic device has not been activated for the destination device and the geo-location of the IP address of the electronic device is outside the zone of the destination device, receiving, by the host server from the router, an authentication request for the ZAM application of the electronic device;
when the ZAM application for the electronic device has been activated for the destination device and the geo-location of the IP address of the electronic device is outside the zone of the destination device, receiving, by the host server from the router, an authentication request for the ZAM application of the electronic device;
when the ZAM application for the electronic device has not been activated for the destination device and the geo-location of the IP address of the electronic device is within the zone of the destination device, receiving, by the host server from the router, an authentication request for the ZAM application of the electronic device; and
when the ZAM application for the electronic device has been activated for the destination device and the geo-location of the IP address of the electronic device is within the zone of the destination device, receiving, by the host server from the router, an acknowledgement command for the ZAM application of the electronic device to allow the destination device to communicate with the ZAM application of the electronic device.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the host server from a zone tag device, a request to activate a ZAM application for an electronic device;
transmitting, by the host server, an activation for the ZAM application for the electronic device;
transmitting, by the host server to the router, a notification the ZAM application for the electronic device is activated.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the request to activate the ZAM application for the electronic device is initiated by the electronic device.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the request to activate the ZAM application for the electronic device is initiated by the zone tag device.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the activation is transmitted from the zone tag device to the electronic device.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the activation is transmitted to the electronic device.
7. The method of claim 2 , wherein the request to activate the ZAM application for the electronic device occurs when the electronic device is within a pre-determined radius of the zone tag device.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the pre-determined zone of the destination device is a radius around the destination device.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the geo-location is a radius surrounding the location of the electronic device IP address.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the geo-location is a boundary within a zip code.