Patent ID: 11876780
Assignee: QUIXOTIC HOLDINGS, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. One or more memories collectively having contents configured to cause a processor to perform a method, the method comprising:
making direct or indirect wireless connections between a first communication device and each of one or more additional communication devices;
determining that no security authority is available to provide network keys to the one or more additional communication devices; and
in response to the determining:
appointing the first communication device security authority; and
enabling the first communication device to, as security authority, based upon the provisional registration of the one or more additional communication devices, provide to the one or more additional communication devices network keys usable to secure communication among the one or more additional communication devices and the first communication device, including:
providing a first network key of the first network to each of the one or more additional communication devices, wherein the first network key is based on, but different from, a second network key received by the first communication device as part, of its participation in a second network, and wherein the first communication device formerly participated in the second network and the second network is no longer accessible to the first communication device.