US Patent 10951615 Wireless network access for data appliances

A wireless access point receives an access request having a distributed ledger indicator and an appliance identity from a data appliance. The wireless access point transfers the appliance identity to a distributed ledger responsive to the access request. The distributed ledger reaches consensus on the appliance identity, determines network access for the data appliance per the appliance identity, reaches consensus on the network access, and transfers an instruction to the wireless access point. The wireless access point schedules access for the data appliance per the instruction. The wireless access point wirelessly transfers a network access schedule to the data appliance. The wireless access point receives user data from the data appliance per the network access schedule and transfers the user data to the distributed ledger. The distributed ledger receives the user data, reaches consensus on the user data, and stores the user data in a distributed ledger database.