Patent ID: 8811225

Claim:
A wireless network system, comprising: a network device including a first communication interface for transmitting and receiving data over a wireless medium and a network configuration memory element; a joining device comprising a second communication interface for transmitting and receiving data over a wireless medium and a device configuration memory element, said network device and said joining device being configured for communicating in a commissioning mode; said network device is configured to broadcast network identification information, said joining device is configured, upon receipt of said network identification information, to send a request to join the network to said network device, said request including a predefined address; said network device is configured to respond to said request by assigning a network address to said joining device to store data corresponding to said network address in said network configuration memory element and to send joining information comprising at least said network address to said joining device using said predefined address; said joining device is configured to receive said joining information and to store said joining information in said device configuration memory element, so that said joining device is addressable in the network system using said network address; said network device is associated with a network key as predetermined code data and includes a secondary signal transmitter configured for sending a signal corresponding to said predetermined code data to said joining device; said joining device including a secondary signal receiver configured to receive said signal and to send corresponding verification information over said wireless medium to said network device, and said network device is configured to determine whether said verification information corresponds to said code data and to send joining information to the joining device only if the verification information corresponds to said code data.