US 12,015,498 B1Granted

Electronic device configuration using dummy devices

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsElliott Lemberger, John Modestine, James Sharpe

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Abstract

According to aspects of the present disclosure, user-defined settings may be assigned to a dummy device in response to a first request. A device identifier of a particular electronic device may later be registered with the dummy device in response to a second request. Based on receiving data indicating an installation procedure of the particular electronic device and based on the device identifier being registered with the dummy device, user-defined settings may be transmitted to cause configuration of at least some of the user-defined settings on the particular electronic device. In some cases, the data indicating an installation procedure corresponds to a beacon from the particular electronic device (e.g., a smart home device), which includes the device identifier. Further, the user-defined settings may be provided to the particular electronic device by another electronic device (e.g., another smart home device).

Claims19

Dependent claims

A method for a first smart home device, the first smart home device including a processor and a network interface, the method comprising:

receiving, at a first time using the network interface and from a remote system, first data representing a first device identifier associated with a second smart home device;
receiving, by the first smart home device using the network interface and from the remote system, second data representing user-defined settings comprising a device label for the second smart home device;
receiving, at a second time that is after the first time, a beacon transmitted by the second smart home device, the beacon indicating an installation procedure of the second smart home device and including third data representing a second device identifier associated with the second smart home device;
determining, by the first electronic device, that the second device identifier represented by the third data corresponds to the first device identifier represented by the first data;
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based at least in part on the determining that the second device identifier represented by the third data corresponds to the first device identifier represented by the first data, sending, by the first electronic device and to the second electronic device, the second data representing the user-defined settings for the second electronic device.

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Application: 16/186,424Filed 9 Nov 2018
Granted: 18 Jun 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

H04L 12/2809
Exchanging configuration information on appliance services in a home automation network: indicating that an appliance service is present in a home…
H04L 12/2803
Characterised by path configuration, e.g. LAN [Local Area Networks] or WAN [Wide Area Networks]: home automation networks
H04L 12/2807
Home automation networks: exchanging configuration information on appliance services in a home automation network
H04L 41/0803
Configuration management of networks or network elements: configuration setting

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