HANDSHAKE METHOD FOR WIRELESS CLIENT

• US 20070258415A1
• Filed: 05/02/2006
• Published: 11/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Accton Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: Accton Technology Corporation
• Inventors: Lu, Kuen-Ruey, Yang, Bor-Wen
• Application Number:
  US11/381,191
• Publication Number:
  US 20070258415A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0236 Filtering by address, protocol, port number or service, e.g. IP-address or URL
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/50 Secure pairing of devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A method for the wireless client automatically updates the security setting of its own in order to access the specified wireless local area network (LAN) by the wireless server. The method comprises several processes, including a wireless client trying to build a wireless connection with a wireless server of the wireless LAN. But the wireless connection fails to be built, because the security setting of the wireless client do not match with the security setting of the wireless server of the wireless LAN. Then the wireless server of the wireless LAN builds a temporary connection with the wireless client in order to communicate with each other. The wireless server of the wireless LAN sends the security setting of the wireless LAN to the wireless client through the temporary connection by HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) packets. After the wireless client receives the security settings of the wireless LAN, the wireless client changes the security settings of its own to match the received settings. Because the settings of the wireless client and the wireless server now are synchronized, the wireless client can access the wireless LAN safely and smoothly.

Claims

1. A handshake method for a wireless client, said method comprising:

building a wireless connection with a wireless server by said wireless client'"'"'s request;

building a temporary connection with said wireless client by said wireless server when said wireless connection is failed due to first security settings of said wireless client;

sending second security settings to said wireless client through said temporary connection by said wireless server; and

changing said first security settings to match said second security settings by said wireless client.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said wireless client comprises a personal computer, a personal digital assistant device, a mobile phone or a laptop computer.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein protocols of said wireless connection comprise IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g or IEEE 802.11i.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said temporary connection comprises a wireless connection or a wired connection.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a connection mode of said wireless server comprises an infrastructure mode and an Ad-hoc mode.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said process of building said temporary connection can be done by a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) negotiation when said wireless client does not have an IP (internet protocol) address.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said process of building said temporary connection further comprises:

starting said DHCP negotiation between said wireless client and said wireless server in bi-direction; and

providing a private IP address to said wireless client by said wireless server.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

filtering all packets from said wireless client except HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) packets by said wireless server.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said second security settings are sent through HTTP packets to said wireless client by said wireless server.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said first security settings and said second security settings comprise several wireless network security policy parameters.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said wireless network security policy parameters of said first security settings comprise security key values, encryption methods and 802.11 authentications.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein said wireless network security policy parameters of said second security settings comprise security key values, encryption methods and 802.11 authentications.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein said encryption methods comprise WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy,) AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and DES (Data Encryption Standard.)

14. The method of claim 12, wherein said encryption methods comprise WEP, AES and DES.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein said 802.11 authentications comprise WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) and WPA2.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein said 802.11 authentications comprise WPA and WPA2.

21. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

filtering packets from said wireless client except HTTP packets.

17. A handshake method for a wireless client, said method comprising:

building a wireless connection with a access point by said wireless client'"'"'s request;

building a temporary connection by said access point;

performing DHCP negotiation in bi-direction;

filtering packets from said wireless client except HTTP packets by said access point;

sending HTTP packets to said access point by said wireless;

sendings a security policy page to said wireless client; and

establishing a connection via said security policy page provided by said access point.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein a connection mode of said access point comprises an infrastructure mode and an Ad-hoc mode.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein said process of building said temporary connection can be done by a DHCP negotiation when said wireless client does not have an IP address.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein said process of building said temporary connection further comprises:

starting said DHCP negotiation between said wireless client and said access point in bi-direction; and

providing a private IP address to said wireless client by said access point.

22. The method of claim 17, wherein security settings of said security policy are sent through HTTP packets to said wireless client.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein said security setting comprises security key values, encryption methods and 802.11 authentications.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein said encryption methods comprise WEP, AES and DES.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein said 802.11 authentications comprise WPA and WPA2.