Patent ID: 8510560
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: establishing a unique key between a first network station and a second network station to enable the second network station to join a wireless network, the first network station configured to communicate with at least a third network station in the wireless network; and deriving an encryption key, by the second network station, to communicate with the third network station, the deriving based on information intrinsic to the third network station that is received at the second network station from the first network station, the information intrinsic to the third network station implicitly known by the first network station based on prior communications between the first network station and the third network station over the wireless network, wherein the information intrinsic to the third network station is known by the second network station without exchanging pairwise transient keys between the second network station and the third network station.