Patent ID: 11917400
Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a cellular network module of a user equipment, from network equipment via a cellular network, cryptographic data, wherein the user equipment comprises a wireless local area network (WLAN) module for communications over a non-cellular network;
based on a request from the WLAN module, generating, by the cellular network module, a session key using the cryptographic data received via the cellular network;
communicating, by the cellular network module, the session key directly to the WLAN module to enable the WLAN module to use the session key for communications over the non-cellular network; and
establishing, by the WLAN module, via the non-cellular network, an internet connection using the session key.