US 11,917,536 B2
Establishment of a wireless network
Magnus Eriksson, Lund (SE); Stefan Andersson, Lund (SE); Marcus Prebble, Lund (SE); Philip Linde, Lund (SE); Filip Björck, Lund (SE); Björn Holmstedt, Lund (SE); Tommy Stahlros, Lund (SE); Hamoud Abdullah, Lund (SE); and Johan Helmertz, Lund (SE)
Assigned to AXIS AB, Lund (SE)
Filed by Axis AB, Lund (SE)
Filed on Oct. 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/494,835.
Claims priority of application No. 20202231 (EP), filed on Oct. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0124613 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 48/20 (2009.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04W 48/20 (2013.01) [H04L 63/0861 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for initiating a Wi-Fi network to be used to connect an electronic device among a set of portable first-type electronic devices with a second-type electronic device, the method comprising:
receiving, at a service server configured to service the set of first-type electronic devices, data pertaining to a user-id;
retrieving, from a database, a unique network configuration which is associated with the user-id and not device-id specific, wherein the unique network configuration is known beforehand by the second-type electronic device;
selecting, at the service server, an electronic device among the set of first-type electronic devices; and
sending, to the selected electronic device, the unique network configuration associated with the user-id for allowing the selected electronic device to initiate a Wi-Fi network using the unique network configuration associated with the user-id.