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US 11,641,621 B2Granted
Cloud-based provisioning using peer devices
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsOmar Abdul Baki, Jin Guo, Thomas Werner Kuehnel, King Shaw
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Abstract
A system in which a device may automatically provision another device with credentials, at the behest of a cloud-based service, based in part on the physical proximity of the device to be provisioned. The provisioning device and the device to be provisioned may use a radio access technology (RAT) with a limited radio range. Account information associated with the device to be provisioned is known to the cloud-based service, which authenticates the device to be provisioned via the device with credentials.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- configuring a first device to enter a mode to allow wireless communications between the first device and a second device;
- determining the first device and the second device are associated with a user account;
- determining, based at least in part on the association, that the second device is configured to establish wireless communications between the first device and the second device;
- establishing a wireless connection between the first device and the second device;
- receiving, by the second device from the first device, a first wireless signal corresponding to a connection request from the first device, the first wireless signal including first data identifying the first device;
- sending, by the second device to at least one server, the first data identifying the first device;
- receiving, by the second device from the at least one server, second data corresponding to the second device;
- and
- processing the second data by the second device to establish the wireless connection between the first device and second device.
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A system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
- configure a first device to enter a mode to allow wireless communications between the first device and a second device;
- determine the first device and the second device are associated with a user account;
- determine, based at least in part on the association, that the second device is configured to establish wireless communications between the first device and the second device;
- establish a wireless connection between the first device and the second device;
- receive, by the second device from the first device, a first wireless signal corresponding to a connection request from the first device, the first wireless signal including first data identifying the first device;
- send, by the second device to at least one server, the first data identifying the first device;
- receive, by the second device from the at least one server, second data corresponding to the second device;
- and
- process the second data by the second device to establish the wireless connection between the first device and second device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.