US 2017/0288786 A1 · ON-BOARDING AND PROVISIONING DEVICES USING ULTRASONIC WAVE COMMUNICATIONS

Abstract

Techniques for communicating configuration information with remote devices using ultrasonic audio are disclosed. In an example, provisioning and device onboarding operations are initiated by a configuration computing device to a plurality of configurable devices, through operations that encode configuration data into an ultrasonic audio signal (e.g., emitted at 18 kHz or greater) and broadcast this ultrasonic audio signal with a speaker. The respective configurable devices may then perform operations to receive the ultrasonic audio signal with a microphone, decode the configuration data from the ultrasonic audio signal, and configure settings based on the configuration data. This configuration data may include network connection information to onboard the respective configurable devices to connection with a wireless local area network (e.g., a Wi-Fi network). This configuration data may also communicate information to enable the respective configurable device to access a provisioning server, used to obtain additional network or configuration settings.

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Dependent claims

A configuration computing device, comprising:

a speaker;
and
processing circuitry to perform operations that:
process configuration data for a plurality of configurable devices;
encode the configuration data into an ultrasonic audio signal;
and
output the ultrasonic audio signal with the speaker;
wherein the ultrasonic audio signal is emitted by the speaker to be received by the plurality of configurable devices, to cause the plurality of the configurable devices to implement a configuration based on the configuration data.

5 more elements

At least one device readable storage medium, comprising a plurality of instructions that, responsive to being executed with processing circuitry of a configuration computing device, cause the configuration computing device to perform operations that:

process configuration data for a plurality of configurable devices;
encode the configuration data into an ultrasonic audio signal;
and
output the ultrasonic audio signal with a speaker;
wherein the ultrasonic audio signal is to be received by the plurality of configurable devices, to cause the plurality of the configurable devices to implement a configuration based on the configuration data.

2 more elements

A method comprising electronic operations, which when performed by circuitry of a configuration computing device, causes the configuration computing device to perform the electronic operations including:

processing configuration data for a plurality of configurable devices;
encoding the configuration data into an ultrasonic audio signal;
and
outputting the ultrasonic audio signal with a speaker;
wherein the ultrasonic audio signal is to be received by the plurality of configurable devices, to cause the plurality of the configurable devices to implement a configuration based on the configuration data.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

On-boarding and provisioning devices using ultrasonic wave communications

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Abstract

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