Household appliance commissioning
OwnerJanghwan Hahn, Weston Spaldinginventors
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Abstract
A method of commissioning a domestic appliance may include receiving, from a user interface of an existing household appliance, a request to add a new household appliance to the user account. The method may further include scanning for the new household appliance with the existing household appliance and establishing a direct connection from the existing household appliance to the new household appliance. The method may still further include obtaining a provisioning token from a remote database with the existing household appliance and transmitting the provisioning token from the existing household appliance to the new household appliance via the direct connection.
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A method of provisioning a new household appliance using an existing household appliance, the existing household appliance connected to a wireless network and provisioned to a user account, the method comprising:
- receiving, from a user interface of the existing household appliance, a request to add the new household appliance to the user account;
- scanning for the new household appliance with the existing household appliance;
- establishing a direct connection from the existing household appliance to the new household appliance;
- obtaining a provisioning token from a remote database with the existing household appliance, obtaining the provisioning token comprising
- transmitting a token request from the existing household appliance to the remote database, and
- receiving the provisioning token at the existing household appliance from the remote database;
- and
- transmitting the provisioning token from the existing household appliance to the new household appliance via the direct connection.
A method of provisioning a new household appliance using an existing household appliance, the existing household appliance connected to a wireless network and provisioned to a user account, the method comprising:
- receiving, from a user interface of the existing household appliance, a request to add the new household appliance to the user account;
- scanning for the new household appliance with the existing household appliance;
- establishing a direct connection from the existing household appliance to the new household appliance;
- obtaining a provisioning token from a remote database with the existing household appliance obtaining the provisioning token comprising
- transmitting a token request from the existing household appliance to the remote database, and
- receiving the provisioning token at the existing household appliance from the remote database;
- transmitting network credentials for the wireless network and the provisioning token from the existing household appliance to the new household appliance via the direct connection;
- initiating connection to the wireless network using the transmitted network credentials;
- and
- associating the new household appliance with the user account using the transmitted provisioning token.
A method of provisioning a new household appliance using an existing household appliance, the existing household appliance connected to a wireless network and provisioned to a user account, the method comprising:
- commissioning the existing household appliance to the user account prior to receiving the request to add the new household appliance;
- scanning for the new household appliance with the existing household appliance;
- receiving, from a user interface of the existing household appliance, a request to add the new household appliance to the user account following commissioning the existing appliance and scanning for the new household appliance;
- establishing a direct connection from the existing household appliance to the new household appliance, the direct connection being a peer-to-peer connection;
- obtaining a provisioning token from a remote database with the existing household appliance, obtaining the provisioning token comprising
- transmitting a token request from the existing household appliance to the remote database, and
- receiving the provisioning token at the existing household appliance from the remote database;
- transmitting network credentials for the wireless network and the provisioning token from the existing household appliance to the new household appliance via the direct connection;
- initiating connection to the wireless network using the transmitted network credentials;
- associating the new household appliance with the user account using the transmitted provisioning token;
- and
- terminating the direct connection on the existing household appliance after connecting the new household appliance to the wireless network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.