Mbit Wireless, Inc.

Siva Munirathinam

Prakash Neelakandan Malliga

Kalyankumar Reddy

Ilavarasan Kuppan

Pravinkumar Muralidaran

Nithilane Loganadane

To provide increased security in Wi-Fi enabled client devices, Media Access Control (MAC) address of a client device may have to be entered manually in a hotspot device which may increase complexity. A method and apparatus are disclosed in which a first client device, referred as Admin client device, may be authenticated by provisioning the MAC address of the client device in a hotspot device. When a new client device is connected with hotspot device, the hotspot device may send MAC address of the new client device to Admin client device. The Admin client device may prompt the device authentication request with MAC address of a new client device. If the user authenticates the request, MAC address of the new client device may be authenticated and internet access may be provided to the new client device. With this method, connection establishment of new client devices is simplified with increased security.

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Siva Munirathinam