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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2016
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Nicholas A. J. Millington, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Paul V. Hainsworth, Foxboro, MA (US);
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for automatically configuring necessary parameters of a device to be coupled to a network with minimum human intervention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a wired and/or wireless Ad-hoc network is established to facilitate communications among a group of devices. When a new device is added to the network, a rudimentary communication path is initially established between one of the devices in the network and the new device such that necessary parameters (e.g., SSID, WEP security, channel frequency) can be exchanged for the new device to function properly in the network. To ensure the parameters are exchanged in a secure fashion, an additional public security procedure can be used between the two devices.
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