Patent ID: 11882431
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A method for establishing a connection of a home appliance with an external wireless access point apparatus, the method comprising:
detecting a button of the home appliance being pressed for a selected period of time;
operating a communication circuitry of the home appliance in a first mode in response to the detecting;
while the communication circuitry operates in the first mode:
connecting, via the communication circuitry, directly to an external terminal; and
obtaining network set-up information including a Service Set Identifier (SSID) of the external wireless access point apparatus and authentication information to access the external wireless access point apparatus which were previously used to make a connection between the external terminal and the external wireless access point apparatus and stored in the external terminal; and
operating the communication circuitry in a second mode; and
while the communication circuitry operates in the second mode:
connecting, via the communication circuitry, to the external wireless access point apparatus using the obtained network set-up information; and
operating the communication circuitry to access an external server via the external wireless access point apparatus.