Patent ID: 7802297

Claim:
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: the wireless keyboard determines to operate in a wireless interface enabled mode once the valid access code is typed onto the keypad of the wireless keyboard; and the wireless keyboard, when operating in the wireless interface enabled mode, communicates using a personal area network protocol.