Patent ID: 7769995
Filing Date: 2010-08-03
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of providing secure network access, comprising: connecting, via a first interface, a secure network provisioning device to a security authority; acquiring, by the secure network provisioning device operating in an acquisition mode, at least one network profile from the security authority; configuring at least a second interface of the secure network provisioning device with data corresponding to attributes of said at least one network profile; switching the secure network provisioning device from the acquisition mode to a gateway mode, in which gateway mode the secure network provisioning device functions as a gateway; connecting, via the first interface, the secure network provisioning device to a client device, the first interface having been disconnected from the security authority; and for each of said at least one network profile, providing the client device, while in the gateway mode, with access through at least the second interface to a secure network associated with the network profile, wherein disconnection of the first interface of the secure network provisioning device from the client device terminates access to the secure network by the client device.