Patent ID: 9722988
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising: circuitry for a first device; a memory to store instructions operable on the circuitry, the instructions, when executed, cause the circuitry to: determine whether a second device is approved for wirelessly docking to the first device based, at least in part, on a first list indicating that the second device is approved; modify a jointly derived pairwise master key (PMK) based, at least in part, on the determination indicating the second device is approved for wirelessly docking to the first device and to send a directive including a shared algorithm or concatenate information, the directive to direct the second device to modify another instance of the jointly derived PMK to generate a same modified jointly derived PMK based on the shared algorithm or concatenate information; authenticate the second device using the same modified jointly derived PMK modified by the second device; and cause the first device to wirelessly dock to the second device based, at least in part, on a successful authentication.