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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2023
Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Carl Sassenrath, Reno, NV (US);
Greg Garner, San Jose, CA (US);
Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system to facilitate adding a new IoT device to an IoT ecosystem that includes an existing IoT device, where a mobile device is configured to control the IoT ecosystem. In an example, the new device detects a wireless broadcast from the existing device that provides identification information of the mobile device. In response, the new device then uses the provided identification information of the mobile device as a basis to scan for and discover wireless presence of the mobile device. And responsive to the discovering wireless presence of the mobile device based on the mobile-phone identification information provided by the existing device, the new device then transmits to the mobile device, via the existing device as a wireless proxy, new-device information about the new device—which enables the mobile device to prompt for and obtain user approval to add the new device to the IoT ecosystem.