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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014
Filed:
May. 27, 2011
Yong Zhou, San Jose, CA (US);
Prasanna J. Satarasinghe, McKinney, TX (US);
Vladimir Alperovich, Dallas, TX (US);
David Ka-wai Hui, Fremont, CA (US);
James Goss, Grapevine, TX (US);
John Baker, Southlake, TX (US);
Yong Zhou, San Jose, CA (US);
Prasanna J. Satarasinghe, McKinney, TX (US);
Vladimir Alperovich, Dallas, TX (US);
David Ka-Wai Hui, Fremont, CA (US);
James Goss, Grapevine, TX (US);
John Baker, Southlake, TX (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides an access node for transferring and/or assigning network passwords. The access node includes a first interface for sending and receiving communication of a first type to and from a first node operating in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The access node also includes a second interface for sending and receiving communication of a second type to and from a second node in a mobile network, such as a GSM/GPRS network. The access node further includes a short messaging service (SMS) module for sending and receiving. SMS messages to the second node carrying an OTP allocated. The access node also includes a mechanism to verify a precondition before the OTP is sent to the second node.