Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Blockchain based wireless access point password management
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Application No.: US16019376Application Date: 2018-06-26
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Publication No.: US11082850B2Publication Date: 2021-08-03
- Inventor: Rick Tipton , Mark D. Austin , Matt Dugan
- Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Amin, Turocy & Watson, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F7/04
- IPC: G06F7/04 ; G06F15/16 ; G06F17/00 ; H04L29/06 ; H04W12/08 ; H04W84/04 ; H04W88/08

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed herein for managing and sharing credentials, such as passwords for wireless access points using blockchain technology. In certain embodiments, a transaction may be generated using information and a set of conditions. A requester user device seeking access to a wireless access point may request the password from the blockchain fabric using a unique identifier for the wireless access point and may satisfy other conditions from the set of conditions which determines access to the password by the requester.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190394648A1 BLOCKCHAIN BASED WIRELESS ACCESS POINT PASSWORD MANAGEMENT Public/Granted day:2019-12-26
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