Reconfiguration of wireless devices for wireless network access
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsYunis Naduvile Purayil Mustafa, Gregg Golembeski, Jr., Robert J. Walsh, Edward Thomas Mackowiak
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Abstract
Updated network access information can be distributed to wireless devices that have joined a wireless network whose configuration is being or has been modified. In some instances, an update can be scheduled in advance and a notification provided from a base station to other devices on the network. In some instances, a portable wireless device can distribute updated network access information to other devices that had been on the network prior to the update in a partially or fully automated process.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- joining, by a portable wireless device, a wireless network using initial network access information;
- receiving, by the portable wireless device, updated network access information for the wireless network, the updated network access information indicating an update to a network configuration of the wireless network;
- detecting, by the portable wireless device, that another wireless device is requesting to join the wireless network;
- determining, by the portable wireless device, that the other wireless device had joined the wireless network prior to the update to the network configuration of the wireless network;
- and
- providing, by the portable wireless device, the updated network access information to the other wireless device in response to determining that the other wireless device had joined the wireless network prior to the update to the network configuration of the wireless network.
A portable wireless device comprising:
- a storage subsystem to store network access information;
- a network communication interface to connect to a wireless network using the network access information;
- and
- a processing subsystem coupled to the storage subsystem and the wireless network interface, the processing subsystem being configured to:
- receive updated network access information for the wireless network, the updated network access information indicating an update to a network configuration of the wireless network;
- and
- enter a network repair mode in response to a user instruction,
- the processing subsystem being further configured to, while in the network repair mode:
- detect that another wireless device is requesting to join the wireless network;
- determine that the other wireless device had joined the wireless network prior to the update to the network configuration of the wireless network;
- and
- provide the updated network access information to the other wireless device in response to determining that the other wireless device had joined the wireless network prior to the update to the network configuration of the wireless network.
A computer-readable storage medium having stored therein program instructions that, when executed by a processor in a portable wireless device, cause the portable wireless device to perform a method comprising:
- joining a wireless network using initial network access information;
- receiving updated network access information for the wireless network, the updated network access information indicating an update to a network configuration of the wireless network;
- detecting that another wireless device is requesting to join the wireless network;
- determining that the other wireless device had joined the wireless network prior to the update to the network configuration of the wireless network;
- and
- providing the updated network access information to the other wireless device in response to determining that the other wireless device had joined the wireless network prior to the update to the network configuration of the wireless network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.