Patent ID: 11889314
Assignee: LEVITON MANUFACTURING CO., INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for associating a device to a user of a service hosted at a remote location, the method comprising:
establishing a direct network connection between the device and a user computing device;
requesting a security certificate from the device via the direct network connection;
receiving the security certificate from the device, wherein the security certificate comprises a public encryption key;
generating a device key on the user computing device by an application running on the user computing device;
creating a message, by the user computing device, wherein the message comprises the device key and connection information, wherein the connection information comprises information to connect to a local network and information for the device to connect to the service;
encrypting, by the user computing device, the message with the public encryption key to create an encrypted message;
sending the encrypted message to the device wherein the device provides the device key to the service;
connecting with the local network after disconnecting the direct network connection;
connecting, by the application, with the service on a remote network via a gateway connected to the local network;
sending a request to the service to associate with the device, and wherein the request includes the device key to establish a network connection between the user computing device and the service, wherein the service is associated with the device in response to the request if the device key provided by the user computing device matches the device key provided by the device. and
performing a time-out procedure if an acknowledgement is not received from the service.