Guest access to control devices
AssigneeAlarm.com Incorporated
InventorsWilliam Wireko Mensah, Margarita Elena Bottlick, Ashish Sethi
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Abstract
A method for granting guest access to a control device includes detecting, by a monitoring control unit, a new connection of a guest device to a network, transmitting, by the monitoring control unit and to an authorized device, a request to grant access to the guest device to control a monitoring system, in response to the request, receiving, by the monitoring control unit, approval to grant access to the guest device to control the monitoring system, and in response to the approval, transmitting, by the monitoring control unit and to the guest device, (i) data that allows the guest device to access a web service and (ii) a temporary authentication token.
Claims20
A method for granting guest access to a control device, comprising:
- detecting, by a monitoring control unit, a new connection of a guest device to a network;
- transmitting, by the monitoring control unit and to an authorized device, a request to grant access to the guest device to control a monitoring system;
- in response to the request, receiving, by the monitoring control unit, approval to grant access to the guest device to control the monitoring system;
- and
- in response to the approval, transmitting, by the monitoring control unit and to the guest device, (i) data that allows the guest device to access a web service and (ii) a temporary authentication token.
A system comprising:
- a monitoring system associated with one or more properties and a network;
- and
- a monitoring control unit that performs operations comprising:
- detecting a new connection of a guest device to the network;
- transmitting, to an authorized device, a request to grant access to the guest device to control the monitoring system;
- in response to the request, receiving approval to grant access to the guest device to control the monitoring system;
- and
- in response to the approval, transmitting, to the guest device, (i) data that allows the guest device to access a web service and (ii) a temporary authentication token.
A non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- detecting, by a monitoring control unit, a new connection of a guest device to a network;
- transmitting, by the monitoring control unit and to an authorized device, a request to grant access to the guest device to control a monitoring system;
- in response to the request, receiving, by the monitoring control unit, approval to grant access to the guest device to control the monitoring system;
- and
- in response to the approval, transmitting, by the monitoring control unit and to the guest device, (i) data that allows the guest device to access a web service and (ii) a temporary authentication token.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.