US Patent Issued to ARRIS ENTERPRISES on Nov. 18 for "Providing Wi-Fi protected setup (WPS) by sending a code to a network device using a phone" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,595, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Providing Wi-Fi protected setup (WPS) by sending a code to a network device using a phone" was invented by Yonghui Wu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device initiating WPS with a client device based on receiving a signal from a phone. The network device receives a feature number code from a phone connected to the network device. The feature number code is entered on the phone using a keypad and causes the network device to initiate WPS with a client device. The network device sends the phone a first signal indicating that WPS has ...