APPLYING CROWDSOURCED SEQUENCED INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTOMATICALLY INTERACT WITH CAPTIVE PORTALS OF WI-FI NETWORKS

摘要

A computing device detects a network access point's SSID (e. g. Wi- Fi) and obtains, through a cloud service from crowdsourced data describing interactions between mobile computing devices and the network access point, a set of sequenced instructions enabling the device to automatically interact with the captive portal in order to connect to the network. Applying the instruction set includes performing actions such as navigating web pages to accept terms and conditions, provide user or device information, and more.