Establishing a secure wireless network with a minimum human intervention

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9130770-B2
Application number	US-201313863083-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 15, 2013
Priority date	Jun 5, 2004
Publication date	Sep 8, 2015
Grant date	Sep 8, 2015

Abstract

Techniques for automatically configuring necessary parameters of a device to be coupled to a network with minimum human intervention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a wired and/or wireless Ad-hoc network is established to facilitate communications among a group of devices. When a new device is added to the network, a rudimentary communication path is initially established between one of the devices in the network and the new device such that necessary parameters (e.g., SSID, WEP security, channel frequency) can be exchanged for the new device to function properly in the network. To ensure the parameters are exchanged in a secure fashion, an additional public security procedure can be used between the two devices.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A controller device comprising:
an input interface;
a display;
a processing unit;
data storage; and
an application module stored in the data storage and executable by the processing unit to:
based on a user input received via the input interface, (i) display a prompt directing a user to press one or more buttons at a network device, and (ii) listen for a first message from the network device, wherein the first message is transmitted in respon…

Assignees

• Sonos Inc

Inventors

• Millington Nicholas A J
• Hainsworth Paul V

Classifications

• H04L63/0823

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L2012/2841

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L12/2807 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F3/04842

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L2012/2849

  Electricity · mapped topic