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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2023
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Taegu Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An electronic device includes a communication module configured to communicate with at least one nearby device in a communication range, a memory configured to store information about the electronic device and at least one instruction, and at least one processor operatively connected to the communication module and the memory. The at least one processor is configured to execute the at least one instruction to: verify, based on an utterance of a device control instruction for a target device, whether the target device is registered in the electronic device, search for the target device among the at least one nearby device based on a determination that the target device is a device not registered in the electronic device, and perform offline device registration of the target device by performing communication with a found device found by the search.