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AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsDavid C. Robbins, Paul T. Schultz, Mark J. Hahn
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A computing device may execute a device connection application on a processor of the computing device to provide operations including establishing an ad-hoc data connection between the computing device and a machine-to-machine device, the computing device configured to set up the machine-to-machine device to interact with a network-based service using a user account of the network-based service; receiving device information from the machine-to-machine device over the established ad-hoc data connection; and connecting the machine-to-machine device to the network-based service based on the device information received from the machine-to-machine device and according to authentication of the computing device as being associated with the user account. The computing device may further be configured to authenticate and authorize a user to configure the machine-to-machine device to join the network and network-based service.
A computing device configured to execute a device connection application on a processor of the computing device to provide operations comprising:
A method, comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a device connection software program, the device connection software program being executable by a processor of a computing device to provide operations comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.