Patent ID: 8862096

Claim:
A method of provisioning multiple wireless devices, said method being performed in an access point (AP), said method comprising: operating in a secure mode to disregard non-secure provisioning requests from wireless devices; receiving, after said operating, a first command to accept provisioning requests from multiple wireless devices; receiving provisioning requests from multiple wireless devices, after receipt of said first command; provisioning each of said multiple wireless devices, in response to having received said first command, wherein said provisioning of each of said wireless devices comprises: allowing the wireless device to associate with said AP according to a non-secure approach requiring no security credentials to establish non-secure layer-2 connectivity; establishing a secure channel over said non-secure layer-2 connectivity, said secure channel being provided on a layer above said layer-2; and transferring security credentials of said AP to the wireless device over said secure channel; and conducting secure layer-2 communication with each of the provisioned wireless devices after said transferring.