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

Claim 6:
7. A method performed by a first electronic device, the method 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 the portion of the first hash value and the portion of the second hash value.