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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2005
Jonathan M. Vincent, Seattle, WA (US);
Yuhang Zhu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jonathan M. Vincent, Seattle, WA (US);
Yuhang Zhu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method of configuring network access parameters of a portable computing device is provided. A portable computing device usually includes wireless networking components and may be used with various wireless networks. A configuration server using a device management protocol, such as the OMA-DM protocol, sends network configuration information to a portable computing device. This configuration information includes network parameters such as network identifiers, encryption keys and authentication credentials. The portable computing device then uses the provided parameters to set its configuration information so that it can access a defined wireless network.