SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING WIRELESS NETWORK ACCESS PASSWORDS

The present disclosure provides an access node for transferring and/or assigning network passwords. The access node includes a first interface for sending and receiving communication of a first type to and from a first node operating in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The access node also incl...

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Hauptverfasser: ZHOU YONG, GOSS JAMES, BAKER JOHN, SATARASINGHE PRASANNA J, HUI DAVID KA-WAI, ALPEROVICH VLADIMIR
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The present disclosure provides an access node for transferring and/or assigning network passwords. The access node includes a first interface for sending and receiving communication of a first type to and from a first node operating in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The access node also includes a second interface for sending and receiving communication of a second type to and from a second node in a mobile network, such as a GSM/GPRS network. The access node further includes a short messaging service (SMS) module for sending and receiving. SMS messages to the second node carrying an OTP allocated. The access node also includes a mechanism to verify a precondition before the OTP is sent to the second node.