Patent ID: 7802297
Filing Date: 2010-09-21
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method within a wireless keyboard for integrating the wireless keyboard with one of a wireless personal area network or a wireless local area network, comprising: generating display signals for a display that is integral to the keyboard to prompt a keyboard user to enter a valid access code; the wireless keyboard determining to operate in a wireless interface disabled mode until a valid access code is typed onto a keypad of the wireless keyboard; receiving a sequence of key entries made upon the wireless keyboard; determining if the valid access code was entered by the keyboard user; if the keyboard user did enter the valid access code, enabling a wireless interface to operate in a wireless interface enabled mode; defining a password for a keyboard master after determining that the valid access code has been entered by prompting the user on the display to create a keyboard master password; and wherein: