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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2021
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Jennifer Mcdevitt, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
James Babu, Seattle, WA (US);
Patrick Celentano, Boston, MA (US);
Kyle Hutchings, Fuquay-Varina, NC (US);
Pratik Bhangale, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Agerbak, Cambridge, MA (US);
Daniel Valente, Dracut, MA (US);
William Shoesmith, Arlington, MA (US);
Derek W. Erdmann, Duvall, WA (US);
Conor Walsh, Natick, MA (US);
Nikolai Kutateli, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Carl Fristrom, Watertown, MA (US);
Youngjoo Park, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sonos, Inc., Goleta, CA (US);
Abstract
A playback device is configured to (i) transmit, via at least one wireless network interface and indication that the playback device is available for setup, (ii) establish a direct communication path with a computing device configured to operate on a secure wireless network, (iii) provide, outside the direct communication path, authentication information to the computing device, (iv) verify, via the direct communication path, the authentication information with the computing device, (v) after verifying the authentication information via the direct communication path, receive, from the computing device over the direct communication path, network configuration parameters for connecting to the secure wireless network, (vi) use the network configuration parameters to connect to the secure wireless network, and (vii) transition from communicating with the computing device over the direct communication path to communicating with the computing device over the secure wireless network.