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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2016
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Jay Logue, San Jose, CA (US);
Grant Erickson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Roger Tinkoff, Mountain View, CA (US);
David Sloo, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Anthony M. Fadell, Woodside, CA (US);
Matthew L. Rogers, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jeffrey A. Boyd, Novato, CA (US);
James B. Simister, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google Inc., Moutain View, CA (US);
Abstract
include using an application on a mobile device to establish first wireless communications with a first smart-home device that was previously paired with the user account. The method may also include transmitting, to the first smart-home device and using the first wireless protocol, a transmission that instructs the first smart-home device to establish second wireless communications with a second smart-home device, where the second wireless communications use a second wireless protocol. The method may additionally include transmitting network credentials to the first smart-home device using the first wireless protocol, where the credentials are then sent from the first smart-home device to the second smart-home device using the second wireless protocol, such that the second smart-home device can pair with the user account using the first wireless protocol.