Patent ID: 9009792
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G06F,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, the method comprising: determining, in a first device, a security code for wirelessly connecting to a second device by sending a request to initiate communication to the second device and receiving a reply from the second device in response to the request, wherein the request includes a first code and the reply includes a second code that are used to generate the security code; and establishing a secure wireless connection to the second device from the first device by automatically initiating a Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) based, at least in part, on the security code and subsequent to determining the security code, wherein sending the request occurs in response to determining attributes of the second device from packets sent from a third device to the second device and intercepted from a wireless network, wherein the packets are not beacon packets, wherein the request is an initial packet provided between the first device and the second device and wherein the third device is a member of a wireless network of the second device.