Provisioning of multiple wireless devices by an access point

摘要

An aspect of the present disclosure enables an access point (AP) to conveniently provision multiple wireless devices. In an embodiment, the AP may normally operate in a secure mode to disregard non-secure provisioning requests from wireless devices. However, upon receipt of a request to accept provisioning requests from multiple wireless devices, the AP permits multiple wireless devices to be provisioned via the AP, in response to corresponding provisioning requests received from the respective wireless devices. The request to accept may be generated upon pressing of a push button provided on the AP, which may be referred to as a group provisioning button since multiple wireless devices are provisioned in response to pressing of that button.

主权项

1. A method of provisioning multiple wireless devices, said method being performed in an access point (AP), said method comprising:
operating in a secure mode to disregard a first plurality of non-secure provisioning requests from wireless devices, but accept secure provisioning requests in view of operating in said secure mode; receiving, after said operating, a first command to accept non-secure provisioning requests from multiple wireless devices; receiving a second plurality of non-secure provisioning requests from respective ones of multiple wireless devices, after receipt of said first command; provisioning, by said AP, each of said multiple wireless devices in response to the corresponding non-secure provisioning request of said second plurality of non-secure provisioning requests, in view of having received said first command, wherein said provisioning comprises providing parameters which enable each of said multiple wireless devices to comply with security measures enforced by said AP to operate in said secure mode; and conducting secure layer-2 communication in said secure mode with each of the provisioned wireless devices, based on said parameters provided as a part of said provisioning.