Patent ID: 11916910
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A first electronic device comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:
determining that the first electronic device has failed to connect to a wireless access point (WAP) using a first password;
generating first data based in part on a portion of a first hash value of the first password;
broadcasting the first data within an environment of the first electronic device, the environment including a second electronic device communicably coupled to the WAP;
receiving second data from the second electronic device, the second data indicating that the second electronic device is connected to the WAP using a second password that is different than the first password, the second data comprising a portion of a second hash value computed using a portion of the second password; and
determining that the first password is invalid based in part on determining that the portion of the first hash value does not match the portion of the second hash value.