Patent attributes
A system and machine-implemented method of wireless network access are provided. An authentication request comprising credentials for a user account of a cloud-based service is received from a wireless client device. The authentication request is forwarded to a server associated with the cloud-based service for authentication of the user account credentials. A list of one or more network identifiers corresponding to networks for which access by the user account of the cloud-based service is authorized is received from the server. The received list of one or more network identifiers is sent to the wireless client device, wherein the received list of one or more network identifiers is sent to the wireless client device prior to the wireless client device being associated with the wireless local area network.
