公开(公告)号：US10111095B2

公开(公告)日：2018-10-23

申请号：US15068965

申请日：2016-03-14

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Pritesh Patel ,  Youjian Xu ,  David H. Ten Eyck ,  Aldrich Gamboa

IPC: H04W12/06 ,  H04W12/04 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: A device may determine that a first wireless local area network (WLAN) connection, established with a first WLAN access point using an extensible authentication protocol, has been dropped. The device may store a pairwise master key identifier, associated with the first WLAN access point, based on determining that the first WLAN connection has been dropped. The device may detect a WLAN signal, associated with the first WLAN access point or a second WLAN access point, after determining that the first WLAN connection has been dropped. The device may provide the pairwise master key identifier to the first WLAN access point or the second WLAN access point based on detecting the WLAN signal. The device may establish a second WLAN connection with the first WLAN access point or the second WLAN access point based on providing the pairwise master key identifier and without re-authenticating using the extensible authentication protocol.