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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2024

Filed:

Aug. 17, 2021
Applicant:

Mcafee, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Bangalore, IN;

Piyush Pramod Joshi, Aurangabad, IN;

Devika Mishra, Bengaluru, IN;

Shashank Jain, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 88/08 (2009.01); H04W 12/069 (2021.01); H04W 12/086 (2021.01); H04W 12/71 (2021.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04W 88/16 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/069 (2021.01); H04W 12/086 (2021.01); H04W 12/71 (2021.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01); H04W 88/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is disclosed in an example, a gateway apparatus, including a hardware platform having a processor and a memory; a wireless network interface; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: provide a first virtual access point (VAP) secured by an IEEE 802.1x extensible authentication protocol (EAP) enterprise security method; provide a second VAP secured by a WiFi protected access pre-shared key (WPA-PSK) method; onboard a device, comprising determining whether the device supports the EAP method, and enrolling the device with the EAP method if the device supports the EAP method; and if the device does not support the EAP method, enrolling the device with the WPA-PSK method.


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