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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2013
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Henry Ptasinski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Edward Carter, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Manoj Thawani, San Jose, CA (US);
Manas Deb, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeff Vadasz, Los Altos, CA (US);
Mahesh Iyer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Certain aspects of a method for enabling exchange of information in a secure communication system may comprise configuring at least one 802.11 client station via authentication enablement information comprising data that specifies a time period during which configuration is allowed. The data that specifies a time period during which configuration is allowed may comprise a configuration window open field, which indicates a period when a configuration setup window is open. At least one client station may be configured via the authentication enablement information comprising recently configured data, which indicates whether at least one configurator has configured at least one other client station within the time period during which the configuration is allowed.