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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2017
Applicant:
Rab Lighting Inc., Northvale, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Jason Lawrence Oliver, Northvale, NJ (US);
Assignee:
RAB Lighting Inc., Northvale, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 37/02 (2006.01); H05B 39/04 (2006.01); H05B 41/36 (2006.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 88/16 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 37/0272 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01); H04W 88/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
Securing device rejoining for a mesh network of a wireless lighting control system is disclosed. A potential security weakness of a mesh network protocol is that a proprietary link key may be discovered by close, expert examination of a device, potentially facilitating the joining of a 'rogue' device to the network. Requiring subsequent rejoins of any device that had previously joined the network to use a current randomly generated link key, rather than the proprietary link key, prevents rogue devices only having the proprietary link key from joining.