Mahesh O Mutha

US Patent:

20070049252, Mar 1, 2007

Filed:

Aug 31, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/216307

Inventors:

Brian Smith - Wellington FL, US
Mahesh Mutha - Sunrise FL, US
Imran Raza - Lake Worth FL, US
Srinath Subramanian - Davie FL, US

International Classification:

H04M 1/66

US Classification:

455411000, 455041200

Abstract:

A method and a machine readable storage for handling failures during security exchanges between a station (125) having a wireless network adapter (130) and a first access point (110) of a wireless local area network (WLAN) (105). As part of a WLAN association process, the method can include transmitting from the station to the first access point a message including a station identifier (170). A first protocol exchange timer (180) also can be started. Responsive to a timeout of the first protocol exchange timer, an association retry counter can be incremented. The WLAN association process can be restarted if the association retry counter is not greater than a retry counter threshold. If the association retry counter is greater than the retry counter threshold, the wireless network adapter can be commanded to enter sleep mode.