US 11,240,474 B1 · Reporting connectivity problems for electronic devices

Abstract

Systems and methods provide a notification of a connectivity problem of a video doorbell to a smartphone. A first communication link between the video doorbell and a backend server is determined unavailable, such as when a password used by the video doorbell to access a local area network (LAN) is not accepted by the LAN. A Bluetooth transceiver of the video doorbell is activated and a Bluetooth signal transmitted from the smartphone is detected. A second communication link between the video doorbell and the smartphone via the Bluetooth transceiver is established and a message is sent to the smartphone, via the Bluetooth transceiver, indicating that the password used by the video doorbell to access the LAN is not accepted by the LAN. The message causes an application running on the smartphone to display a notification on a display of the smartphone indicating the communication problem.

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Dependent claims

A method for dual auto-provisioning of an electronic device from a repeater access point (AP), the method comprising:

generating, from a base AP, a base wireless local area network (WLAN) accessible using a base WLAN configuration including a base service set identifier (SSID) and a base password;
storing, at the repeater AP, the base WLAN configuration;
connecting, using the base WLAN configuration, the repeater AP to the base WLAN;
generating, from the repeater AP, a repeater WLAN accessible using a repeater WLAN configuration including a repeater SSID and a repeater password;
receiving, at the repeater AP, an auto-provisioning request from the electronic device;
sending, from an auto-provisioner of the repeater AP to the electronic device and prior to the electronic device being configured for connecting to the repeater WLAN, both the repeater WLAN configuration and the base WLAN configuration;
detecting, with the electronic device, whether the repeater WLAN is operational;
connecting, using the repeater WLAN configuration, the electronic device to the repeater WLAN when the repeater WLAN is operational;
and
connecting, using the base WLAN configuration, the electronic device to the base WLAN when the repeater WLAN is not operational.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Reporting connectivity problems for electronic devices

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Reporting connectivity problems for electronic devices

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Abstract

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