Enrollment of enrollee devices to a wireless network
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsFengchang Zhang, Xin Ge, Hai Gu, Fulong Ma
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Abstract
Proposed concepts thus aim to provide schemes, solutions, concepts, designs, methods and systems pertaining to device provisioning protocol onboarding in wireless networks. In particular, the embodiment aims to reduce overall onboarding time for a plurality of enrollee devices by controlling enrollment of the enrollee devices based on the status (e.g. availability, readiness, workload, etc.) of the configurator device.
Claims19
Intermediary apparatus for controlling enrollment of a plurality of enrollee devices to a wireless network according to a device provisioning protocol, DPP, the intermediary apparatus comprising:
- one or more computer processors;
- one or more computer readable storage mediums;
- an interface component configured to obtain authentication data associated with each of the plurality of enrollee devices;
- a status component configured to determine a status of a configurator device of the wireless network;
- a queueing component configured to create an ordered queue, wherein the ordered queue includes a priority of enrollment tasks;
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- a communication component configured to communicate authentication data associated with one or more of the enrollee devices to the configurator device based on the determined status of the configurator device, wherein the status of the configurator relates to whether the configurator device is in an available state during which the configurator device is available to enroll an enrollee device to the wireless network.
A method for controlling enrollment of a plurality of enrollee devices to a wireless network according to a device provisioning protocol, DPP, the method comprising:
- obtaining, at an intermediary apparatus, authentication data associated with each of the plurality of enrollee devices;
- determining a status of a configurator device of the wireless network;
- creating an ordered queue, wherein the ordered queue includes a priority of enrollment tasks;
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- communicating authentication data associated with one or more of the enrollee devices to the configurator device based on the determined status of the configurator device, wherein the status of the configurator relates to whether the configurator device is in an available state during which the configurator device is available to enroll an enrollee device to the wireless network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.