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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015
Filed:
May. 31, 2013
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Damon Michael Davies, Seattle, WA (US);
Mike Kan, Seattle, WA (US);
Scott Austin Haynie, Kirkland, WA (US);
Aidan Nicholas Low, Seattle, WA (US);
David MacGregor Foltz, Seattle, WA (US);
AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments enable devices to share network authentication credentials or other information. For example, a computing device authorized to access a wireless network can be used to manage access to the wireless network, such as by modifying, sharing, or creating a password to access the wireless network. A peer-to-peer connection can be established between the authorized computing device and at least one other computing device (e.g., a guest computing device). Upon establishing the peer-to-peer connection between the devices, a service, application, or system component operating on each device can be used to share network authentication credentials between the devices. For example, the user of the authorized device can cause to be transmitted network authentication credentials to a guest computing device. When the guest computing device receives the network authentication credentials, the guest computing device can connect to the wireless network, authenticate with the wireless network using the network authentication credentials to access, and access at least one network.