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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
May. 16, 2014
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Eyal David Ilsar, Rehovot, IL;
Doron Zehavi, Kibbutz Tzora, IL;
Phil T. Nguyen, San Diego, CA (US);
Ashutosh Aggarwal, San Diego, CA (US);
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure relates to using discoverable peer-to-peer (P2P) services to remotely 'onboard' headless devices over a Wi-Fi network. In particular, an onboardee device may enter an onboarding mode in which the onboardee device becomes a Wi-Fi access point (AP) and an onboarder device connected to a private Wi-Fi network may discover the onboardee device and establish a secured session to engage with the P2P services running thereon. The first time that the onboarder device and the onboardee device engage with one another, the secured session may be established based on a key exchange that uses a well-known secret (e.g., a default passphrase), which may be immediately changed to a shared secret. The onboarder device may then transfer an onboarding configuration to the onboardee device, which may be instructed to validate the onboarding configuration and connect to the Wi-Fi network prior to entering the connected mode.