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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 03, 2018
Applicant:

Vorwerk & Co. Interholding Gmbh, Wuppertal, DE;

Inventor:

Harald Windorfer, Mettmann, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/33 (2018.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/11 (2018.02); G06K 7/1095 (2013.01); H04L 12/2807 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01); H04W 4/33 (2018.02); H04L 41/084 (2013.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/0869 (2013.01); H04L 2012/2841 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention pertains to a method for connecting a household appliance () to a wireless home network (), wherein network access information is transmitted from a user terminal () to the household appliance () by means of an optical code () displayed on the user terminal (), and wherein the household appliance () logs on to the wireless home network () by utilizing the received network access information. In order to ensure that the optical code () is suitable for the household appliance (), it is proposed that an application identification of an application, which generates the optical code () and is installed on the user terminal (), is transmitted in the optical code ().


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