US 9,717,005 C1 (13,399th)
Schemes for connecting to wireless network
Hyoung-Gon Lee, Seoul (KR)
Filed by Empire Technology Development LLC, Wilmington, DE (US)
Assigned to Secure Wi-Fi LLC
Reexamination Request No. 90/015,452, Aug. 18, 2025.
Reexamination Certificate for Patent 9,717,005, issued Jul. 25, 2017, Appl. No. 13/885,754, May 16, 2013.
PCT Filed Nov. 21, 2012, PCT No. PCT/US2012/066306
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 16, 2013,
PCT Pub. No. WO2014/081427, PCT Pub. Date May 30, 2014.
Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate issued on Oct. 1, 2026.
Int. Cl. H04W 12/08 (2021.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04W 8/26 (2009.01); H04W 12/06 (2021.01); H04W 12/73 (2021.01); H04W 12/75 (2021.01); H04W 48/20 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 12/08 (2013.01) [H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04W 8/26 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 48/20 (2013.01); H04W 12/73 (2021.01); H04W 12/75 (2021.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01)]
OG exemplary drawing
AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT:
The patentability of claims 1-5 and 14-17 is confirmed.
Claims 6-13 were not reexamined.
1. A method performed under control of an end device, the method comprising:
receiving a fake device identifier from a mobile operating server;
transmitting, to an access point, a probe request frame that includes the fake device identifier for the end device;
receiving, from the access point, a probe response frame that includes information regarding the access point;
determining that the access point is an authenticated access point based at least in part on the information in the probe response frame that indicates that:
the access point is controlled by the mobile operating server, and
the access point was connected with the end device previous to when the access point received the transmitted probe request frame; and
transmitting, to the access point determined to be the authenticated access point, a connection request that includes an authentic device identifier for the end device.