Patent ID: 8032174
Filing Date: 2011-10-04
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method in a mobile communication device for use in programming a primary extended service set identifier (ESSID) of a wireless local area network (WLAN) in a network list maintained in memory of the mobile device, the WLAN including a primary virtual local area network (VLAN) which provides one or more communication services and a provisioning VLAN which provides a provisioning service but disallows the one or more communication services, the method comprising the acts of: associating, by the mobile device, with a wireless access point of the WLAN by sending a request which includes a provisioning ESSID that is uniquely associated with the WLAN, for accessing and operating in the provisioning VLAN; while being associated with the wireless access point from use of the provisioning ESSID, sending, from the mobile device, authentication information, via the wireless access point, to the WLAN in an authentication procedure with the provisioning VLAN; if the authentication procedure is successful, then: for each one of a plurality of subsequent associations with a wireless access point of the WLAN: associating, by the mobile device, with the wireless access point by sending a request which includes the primary ESSID from the network list instead of the provisioning ESSID, for accessing and operating in the primary VLAN for the one or more communication services.