Patent ID: 7974236

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for configuring a Wi-Fi device, the computer-implemented method comprising: a wireless access point receiving a configuration request from an unregistered Wi-Fi device; and in response to receiving the configuration request from the unregistered Wi-Fi device, the wireless access point: changing its operating mode from a normal operating mode to a configuration operating mode by changing one or more operating parameter values from one or more original values to one or more configuration mode values, wherein when operating in the configuration operating mode, the wireless access point operates with a higher antenna attenuation when operating in the configuration operating mode than when operating in the normal operating mode, exchanging one or more configuration messages with the unregistered Wi-Fi device to register the unregistered Wi-Fi device with the wireless access point, and upon registering the unregistered Wi-Fi device with the wireless access point, the wireless access point changing its operating mode from the configuration operating mode to the normal operating mode by changing the one or more values of the operating parameters from the one or more configuration mode values to the one or more original values.