US Patent Issued to DISH Network on Feb. 18 for "Wireless network provisioning using a pre-shared key" (Colorado, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,884, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Wireless network provisioning using a pre-shared key" was invented by Edward W. Neipris (Wrentham, Mass.), Joshua David Wade (Castle Rock, Colo.) and Tyler Nesper (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements for wireless network provisioning using a pre-shared key (PSK) are presented. A plurality of wireless network access profiles that indicate a plurality of PSKs may be stored. An access point may receive, from a wireless device, a first value based at on the PSK. The access point can transmit the first value to a cloud-based provisi...