Patent ID: 8401195
Filing Date: 2013-03-19
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method to automatically associate a mobile communication device having a device identifier with a newly created first secure group established to provide security information between subscribers of the first secure group, the method comprising: maintaining lists of a plurality of secure groups, their currently authorized subscribers, and each group's associated security information at a key variable loader; receiving an identity of a newly created first secure group at the key variable loader via an external input interface of the key variable loader; providing, via the key variable loader, a first group identifier for the first secure group at the key variable loader and associating the first group identifier with the received identity of the newly created first secure group; setting a first key for the first secure group at the key variable loader, the first key associated with a corresponding encryption algorithm; automatically downloading the device identifier of the mobile communication device to the key variable loader from the communication device over a short range connection connecting the communication device and the key variable loader; and after downloading the device identifier, uploading, via the key variable loader, the first group identifier and the first key for the first secure group to the communication device via the short range connection for use in securing communications between currently authorized subscribers in the first group, and automatically updating a particular list associated with the first secure group out of the plurality of lists of secure groups maintained at the key variable loader to include the device identifier retrieved over the short range connection.