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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Tyler Hawkins, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Christopher Wilson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Conrad Sauerwald, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gregory Novick, San Francisco, CA (US);
Neil G. Crane, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rudolph Van Der Merwe, Portland, OR (US);
Samuel Noble, Portland, OR (US);
Paul William Chinn, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of establishing communications with a first device is disclosed. The method includes: the first device presenting connection information to a second device; receiving a response from a second device; establishing an association with the second device; transmitting, in response to a determination that the first device and the second device are connected for data, first data to the second device, the first data comprising addressing information for a server; receiving second data from the second device, the second data comprising second information for establishing communications with the first device; and configuring the first device to receive third data from a location remote to the first device using the second information from the second data.