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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2001
Stephan Walter Gehring, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Daniel Paul Peters, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Jason Lee Ellis, San Diego, CA (US);
Satish Ananthakrishnan, San Diego, CA (US);
Stephan Walter Gehring, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Daniel Paul Peters, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Jason Lee Ellis, San Diego, CA (US);
Satish Ananthakrishnan, San Diego, CA (US);
General Atomics, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A control method, apparatus, and system capable of securely distributing a shared secret network encryption key from a host to a wireless peripheral device. The sharing of the secret network encryption key is accomplished without the intervention of a man-machine interface at the peripheral. Embodiments enable a wireless device to receive and store multiple encryption keys, to select the appropriate encryption key depending on the network in range of the device, and thus to freely associate with multiple networks.