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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2020
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Mohit Sethi, Helsinki, FI;
Patrik Salmela, Espoo, FI;
TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A Bluetooth device () is disclosed, the Bluetooth device being provisioned with a security credential () that is shared with an authentication server (). The Bluetooth device comprises processing circuitry configured to use a Bluetooth pairing mechanism to establish a pairing with a Bluetooth gateway (-) by establishing a shared secret key with the Bluetooth gateway and to perform an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) authentication method towards the authentication server using the security credential, wherein performing the EAP authentication method comprises using the paired Bluetooth gateway to forward messages to and from the authentication server. The processing circuitry is further configured to bind the pairing established with the paired Bluetooth gateway to the performed EAP authentication method. Also disclosed are a Bluetooth gateway and methods performed by a Bluetooth device and a Bluetooth gateway.