Global Patent Index - EP 3738391 A4

EP 3738391 A4 20220119 - PAIRING AND GATEWAY CONNECTION USING SONIC TONES

Title (en)

PAIRING AND GATEWAY CONNECTION USING SONIC TONES

Title (de)

PAARUNG UND GATEWAY-VERBINDUNG UNTER VERWENDUNG VON SCHALLTÖNEN

Title (fr)

APPARIEMENT ET CONNEXION DE PASSERELLE À L'AIDE DE TONALITÉS SONORES

Publication

EP 3738391 A4 20220119 (EN)

Application

EP 19736012 A 20190108

Priority

  • US 201815864797 A 20180108
  • US 2019012655 W 20190108

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO2019136425A1] A networkable device 1002 is coupled to a wireless IP gateway or paired to a personal area network (PAN) 1016 via the use of a sonic tone 1040, which may be a human-audible sonic tone, which encodes a symbol sequence representing a binary message useful for implementing connection 1011 to a wireless IP gateway or pairing with a PAN. In one embodiment the sonic tone 1040 conveys a media access controller (MAC) address, to facilitate connection and/or pairing. Alternatively, or in addition, the sonic tone may encode a Service Set Identifier (SSID) and password for connection to a wireless network (Wi-Fi), or a BLUETOOTH® identifier and/or PIN for connection to a BLUETOOTH® PAN. In a particular implementation of this embodiment the tone 1040 is produced by the IP gateway and used to initiate Wi-Fi connection 1011, and/or the tone 1040 is produced by the master device 1014 of a PAN to initiate BLUETOOTH® connection 1011.

IPC 8 full level

H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04B 11/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01)

CPC (source: EP KR)

H04B 11/00 (2013.01 - EP KR); H04W 4/80 (2018.01 - EP KR); H04W 48/16 (2013.01 - KR); H04W 76/10 (2018.01 - EP KR); H04W 84/18 (2013.01 - KR); H04W 48/16 (2013.01 - EP); H04W 84/18 (2013.01 - EP)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 2019136425 A1 20190711; CA 3090990 A1 20190711; CN 111886920 A 20201103; EP 3738391 A1 20201118; EP 3738391 A4 20220119; IL 275923 A 20200831; JP 2021510050 A 20210408; KR 20200118036 A 20201014

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 2019012655 W 20190108; CA 3090990 A 20190108; CN 201980017810 A 20190108; EP 19736012 A 20190108; IL 27592320 A 20200708; JP 2020557134 A 20190108; KR 20207022637 A 20190108