Patent ID: 7715795

Claim:
A method of managing in-band connection of an information handling system configured as a wireless profile manager with one or more secondary wireless devices operating in a given network environment, comprising: receiving a request in said wireless profile manager from a user to activate a chosen inactive wireless device profile on said wireless profile manager; determining if any of said secondary wireless devices of said chosen inactive wireless device profile are inactive in response to said request received by said wireless profile manager from said user to activate said chosen wireless device profile; polling any of said secondary wireless devices of said chosen inactive wireless device profile that are determined to be inactive, said polling being performed by said wireless profile manager using out-of-band wireless communication; receiving an out-of-band wireless communication response transmitted from one or more of said determined inactive secondary wireless devices to said wireless profile manager in response to said polling, said out-of-band wireless communication response comprising authentication information; authenticating any of said one or more determined inactive secondary wireless devices that transmit correct authentication information to said wireless profile manager in response to said polling, and not authenticating any of said one or more of said determined inactive secondary wireless devices that do not transmit correct authentication information to said wireless profile manager in response to said polling; and activating any of said one or more determined inactive secondary wireless devices that have been authenticated for in-band wireless communication with said wireless profile manager, and not activating any of said one or more determined inactive secondary wireless devices that have not been authenticated for in-band wireless communication with said wireless profile manager.