公开(公告)号：US11516675B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-29

申请号：US17635905

申请日：2020-08-17

Applicant: SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS

Inventor： Arnaud Frigout ,  Stanislas Faye

IPC: G06F21/00 ,  H04W12/08 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04W12/55 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04W12/61

Abstract: A method and device for pairing a terminal with an access point of a wireless communication network, the network including access points or executing access points, the executing access points coordinate in a centralised manner by an access point fulfilling the manager function, or managing access point. The method includes: —a message received from an executing access point including information that a terminal wishes to pair with the access point; —for each executing access point, information is obtained representing at least one time slot wherein the executing access point is authorised to establish a WPS pairing session with the new terminal, each time slot being separate from the other; —a message is sent to each executing access point including at least the information representing the at least one time slot wherein the executing access point is authorised to establish a WPS pairing session with the new terminal.