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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2024
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Nicholas A. J. Millington, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Paul V. Hainsworth, Foxboro, MA (US);
Sonos, Inc., Goleta, CA (US);
Abstract
A first computing device is configured to (i) detect a triggering event that causes the first computing device to transmit a first set of messages collectively indicating that the first computing device is available for setup, (ii) establish an initial wireless communication path with a second computing device, (iii) receive, from the second computing device via the initial wireless communication path, a second set of messages including security information for a secure wireless network that is defined by one or more network devices, where the initial wireless communication path with the second computing device does not traverse any of the one or more network devices, (iv) use the security information to connect to the secure wireless network, and (v) transition from communicating with the second computing device via the initial wireless communication path to communicating with the second computing device via the secure wireless network.