Patent ID: 9450928
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for registering a group of two or more communication devices in a communication network, comprising: sending, from a network device, a group challenge message to the group of two or more communication devices; receiving, at the network device, two or more response messages to the group challenge respectively from two or more of the group of two or more communication devices, wherein the response message from each of the responding communication devices in the group comprises a same group credential corresponding to the group; aggregating, at the network device, the response messages to the group challenge received from the communication devices in the group; and sending, from the network device, an aggregate message to an authenticator in the communication network to mutually authenticate, as a group, at least two of the communication devices with the authenticator to establish an individual session key for each of said at least two communication devices.