Patent ID: 8700743

Claim:
An article of manufacture, comprising: an interface component configured to couple to a first computer, the first computer being part of a home network having a gateway device to which multiple end user devices are coupled using wireless security settings for the home network; and a key configured to couple to the first computer and to extract the wireless security settings for the home network in response to the first computer being connected to the home network, wherein the key includes computer-implementable instructions that, when executed by a processor, output network-device-setup instructions to a display device coupled to the first computer in response to the first computer not being connected to the home network, wherein one of the network-device-setup instructions includes a notification that the first computer is not connected to the home network, and wherein the key is configured to be physically coupled to a second computer and to load the wireless security settings for the home network from the first computer into the second computer without communicating with the first computer or the gateway device.