Patent ID: 9596603
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for distributed bulk onboarding of devices onto a Wi-Fi network, the method comprising: receiving, at an onboarding device, Wi-Fi configuration information, detecting, at the onboarding device, broadcast information from a plurality of devices that may be onboarded onto the Wi-Fi network, the broadcast information indicating that one or more of the plurality of devices is an onboarding node capable of onboarding another of the plurality of devices, creating instructions indicating an order in which the plurality of devices may be onboarded, and by which of the one or more onboarding nodes each of the remaining devices of the plurality shall be onboarded, and providing Wi-Fi configuration information and at least a portion of the instructions to at least one of the onboarding nodes to enable onboarding at least one device of the plurality of devices.