Methods and systems for secure onboarding of devices over a wireless network

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10694557-B2
Application number	US-201716322235-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 9, 2017
Priority date	Aug 11, 2016
Publication date	Jun 23, 2020
Grant date	Jun 23, 2020

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for automatically connecting an IoT device [ 130 ] to an access point [ 120 ] via a wireless network [ 140 ], comprising: receiving a configuration setting request at an onboarding server [ 110 ] from the access point [ 120 ] pursuant to receiving a broadcasting probe request from the IoT device [ 130 ] at the access point [ 120 ], transmitting one of a configuration setting and a default setting to the access point [ 120 ] based on a status of the IoT device [ 130 ] wherein status includes one of an on-board and an off-board, establishing one of a permanent connection using the configuration setting and a temporary connection using the default setting between the access point [ 120 ] and the IoT device [ 130 ] via the wireless network [ 140 ]; and switching the status of the IoT device [ 130 ] to the on-board in an event the temporary connection is established.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method for automatically connecting at least one IoT device [ 130 ] to at least one access point [ 120 ] via a wireless network [ 140 ], the method being performed by an onboarding server [ 110 ], the method comprising:
receiving a configuration setting request from at least one access point [ 120 ], wherein
the at least one access point [ 120 ] transmits the configuration setting request pursuant to receiving a broadcasting probe request from the at least one IoT device [ 130 ], and
the configuration setting request includes an identifier corresponding to the at least one IoT device [ 130 ];

determining a status of the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] based on an analysis of the identifier, wherein the status of the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] includes one of an on-board and an off-board;
transmitting one of a configuration setting and a default setting to the at least one access point [ 120 ] based on the status of the at least one IoT device [ 130 ], wherein
the configuration setting is transmitted to the at least one access point [ 120 ] in an event the status of the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] is the on-board, and
the default setting is transmitted to the at least one access point [ 120 ] in an event the status of the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] is the off-board;

establishing one of a permanent connection using the configuration setting and a temporary connection using the default setting, between the at least one access point [ 120 ] and the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] via the wireless network [ 140 ]; and
switching the status of the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] to the on-board in an event the temporary connection is established, wherein the switching comprising steps of:
receiving the identifier from the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] via the temporary connection,
generating and transmitting the configuration setting corresponding to the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] based on a positive matching of the identifier with a preconfigured set of identifiers,
receiving an indication from the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] in an event the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] stores the configuration setting, and updating the status of the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] to the on-board pursuant to receiving the indication.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising preconfiguring the preconfigured set of identifiers including at least one identifier corresponding to the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] using one of an application and a web-portal.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising preconfiguring the default setting corresponding to the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] using one of the application and the web-portal.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising transmitting an error indication to the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] based on a negative matching of the identifier with the preconfigured set of identifiers.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the default setting comprises one of a service set identifier, a passphrase and a combination thereof.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the default setting is pre-stored at the at least one IoT device [ 130 ].

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the configuration setting comprises one of a service set identifier, a passphrase and a combination thereof.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the identifier corresponding to the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] comprises one a media access control address, a vendor identifier and a unique identifier.

9. A method for automatically connecting at least one IoT device [ 130 ] over at least one wireless network [ 140 ], the method being performed by the at least one IoT device [ 130 ], the method comprising:
transmitting a broadcasting probe request to at least one access point [ 120 ], wherein
the broadcasting probe request includes an identifier corresponding to the at least one IoT device [ 130 ],
the identifier is transmitted to an onboarding server [ 110 ] from the at least one access point [ 120 ] for determining a status of the at least one IoT device [ 130 ], and
the status includes one of an on-board and an off-board;

establishing one of a permanent connection using a configuration setting and a temporary connection using a default setting, to the at least one access point [ 120 ] via the wireless network [ 140 ], wherein
the permanent connection using the configuration setting is established in an event the status of the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] is the on-board, and
the temporary connection using a default setting is established in an event the status of the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] is the off-board; and

establishing the permanent connection in an event the temporary connection is established, wherein the establishing comprising steps of:
transmitting the identifier to the onboarding server [ 110 ] via the temporary connection,
receiving the configuration setting corresponding to the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] from the onboarding server [ 110 ],
storing the configuration setting and providing an indication to the onboarding server [ 110 ], and
establishing the permanent connection using the stored configuration setting with the at least one access point [ 120 ] via the wireless network [ 140 ].

10. The method as claimed in claim 9 , further comprising pre-storing the default setting at the at least one IoT device [ 130 ].

11. The method as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the default setting comprises one of a service set identifier, a passphrase and a combination thereof.

12. The method as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the configuration setting comprises one of a service set identifier, a passphrase and a combination thereof.

13. The method as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the identifier corresponding to the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] comprises one a media access control address and a unique identifier.

14. A method for automatically connecting at least one IoT device [ 130 ] to at least one access point [ 120 ] via a wireless network [ 140 ], the method being performed by at least one access point [ 120 ], the method comprising:
transmitting a configuration setting request to an onboarding server [ 110 ], wherein
the at least one access point [ 120 ] transmits the configuration setting request pursuant to receiving a broadcasting probe request from the at least one IoT device [ 130 ], and
the configuration setting request includes an identifier corresponding to the at least one IoT device [ 130 ];

receiving one of a configuration setting and a default setting from the onboarding server [ 110 ] based on a status of the at least one IoT device [ 130 ], wherein
the configuration setting is received from the onboarding server [ 110 ] in an event the status of the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] is an on-board, and
the default setting is received from the onboarding server [ 110 ] in an event the status of the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] is an off-board;

allowing the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] and the onboarding server [ 110 ] to establish one of a permanent connection using the configuration setting and a temporary connection using the default setting via the wireless network [ 140 ]; and
enabling the onboarding server [ 110 ] to switch the status of the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] to the on-board in an event the temporary connection is established, wherein the enabling the onboarding server [ 110 ] to switch comprising steps of:
allowing the onboarding server [ 110 ] to receive the identifier from the at least one IoT device [ 130 ] to via the tempo

Assignees

• Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd

Inventors

• Gupta Ajay Kumar
• Oak Vishal Vasant
• Annaiah Mahesh Nayaka Mysore
• Amin Tareq

Classifications

• H04L12/4625 Primary

  Single bridge functionality, e.g. connection of two networks over a single bridge · CPC title

• H04W12/71

  Hardware identity · CPC title

• H04W12/35

  Protecting application or service provisioning, e.g. securing SIM application provisioning · CPC title

• H04L41/0803

  Configuration setting · CPC title

• H04W12/08

  Access security · CPC title