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US 2016/0112257 A1Published application
Cloud device identification and authentication
OwnerMatthew A. HARDY, Randall W. FREI +2inventors
InventorsMatthew A. HARDY, Randall W. FREI, Jonathan P. BAUER, Mahesh PAOLINI-SUBRAMANYA
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Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for authentication and/or provisioning of wireless network devices, and in particular, methods and apparatuses for authentication and/or provisioning of wireless network devices that are communicating with and may be monitored and/or controlled by a remote (e.g., cloud) server.
Claims1
A method of automatic and hands-free provisioning a network device to communicate with a network, the method comprising:
- attaching a bridging device to the network device;
- wirelessly transmitting information about the network device from the bridging device to the handheld computing device;
- transmitting an identifier of a selected second network and the information about the network device from the handheld computing device to a cloud computing environment;
- transmitting provisioning information from the handheld computing device to the network device;
- provisioning the network device with the provisioning information;
- and
- removing the bridging device from the network device, wherein the network device may communicate with the cloud computing environment through the selected second network directly.
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