Apparatus and method for registering and associating internet of things (iot) devices with anonymous iot device accounts

A system comprising:

• a first IoT app to be executed on a first mobile device of a first user, the first user to install a plurality of IoT devices on behalf of a second user, the IoT app comprising a graphical user interface (GUI) to allow the first user to capture one or more identification (ID) codes from each one of the plurality of IoT devices, the mobile device to transmit the ID codes to an IoT service;
• a device management module on the IoT service to provision the IoT devices with the IoT service;
• an account management module on the IoT service to associate the IoT devices with a first account linked to the first user;
• the first IoT app to provide the first user a transfer option to transfer all of the IoT devices to a second user, a transfer code to be generated responsive to the transfer command;
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• a second IoT app on a second mobile device of the second user to receive the transfer code to cause the plurality of IoT devices to be transferred from the first account to a second account to be linked to the second user.

A method comprising:

• executing an IoT app on a mobile device of a user, the IoT app comprising a graphical user interface (GUI) to allow the user to capture one or more identification (ID) codes from one or more IoT devices, the mobile device to transmit the ID codes to an IoT service;
• provisioning the IoT devices with the IoT service;
• establishing an anonymous user account on the IoT service and associating the anonymous user account with the one or more of the provisioned IoT devices;
• wherein upon the provisioned IoT devices being associated with the anonymous user account, the GUI of the IoT app is to provide the user with controllable access to the IoT devices prior to the user entering user identification information to the IoT service.