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Configuring wireless devices for a wireless infrastructure network

  • US 10,079,717 B2
  • Filed: 03/21/2018
  • Issued: 09/18/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • a wireless access point;

    a remote network server;

    a wireless audio output device that comprises multiple acoustic transducers;

    a mobile computer device that is in communication with the wireless audio output device via an ad hoc wireless communication link; and

    one or more host servers that are in communication with the mobile computer device via the Internet, wherein the one or more host servers receive and store credential data for an infrastructure wireless network provided by the wireless access point,wherein;

    the mobile computer device is for transmitting to the wireless audio output device, wirelessly via the ad hoc wireless communication link between the wireless audio output and the mobile computer device, the credential data for the infrastructure wireless network stored by the one or more host servers; and

    the wireless audio output device is for, upon receiving the credential data for the infrastructure wireless network from the mobile computing device;

    connecting to the wireless access point via the infrastructure wireless network;

    streaming audio content from the remote network server via the infrastructure wireless network; and

    playing, by the multiple acoustic transducers of the wireless output device, the audio content streamed from the remote network server, such that the wireless audio output device is enabled to play audio streamed via the infrastructure wireless network without having to be physically plugged into the mobile computing device.

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