Patent ID: 8180339

Claim:
A non-transitory storage media comprising instructions for execution by one or more processors and when executed operable to cause the one or more processors to: detect, by scanning using a communications interface of a wireless client host, one or more remote wireless elements of a wireless network in physical radio frequency vicinity of the client host; select, using the communications interface of the wireless client host, a detected remote element of the one or more remote elements of the wireless network detected during the scan using a network identifier of the selected wireless remote element; interrogate the selected remote wireless element, using one or more sensors directly attached to the wireless client host by: sensing signal characteristics of a radio frequency signal received from the selected wireless remote element; analyzing the sensed signal characteristics associated with the selected wireless remote element; and determining installation configuration information of the selected wireless remote element; and transmit to the selected wireless remote element, using the communications interface of the wireless client host, a message including the installation configuration information corresponding to the selected wireless remote element, wherein said transmitting includes identifying the selected wireless remote element using the network identifier and inserting in the message a network command that upon execution causes the selected wireless remote element to locally store the installation configuration information in a file maintained in a non-volatile memory of the selected wireless remote element for later retrieval.