Patent ID: 11949683
Assignee: ALARM.COM INCORPORATED
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 15:
16. A system comprising:
a monitoring system associated with one or more properties and a network within the one or more properties; and
a monitoring control unit that performs operations comprising:
maintaining a web service that provides access to control one or more devices connected to the monitoring system associated with the one or more properties;
scanning the network within the one or more properties for new connections;
detecting a new connection of a guest device to the network within the one or more properties;
in response to detecting the new connection of the guest device to the network within the one or more properties, transmitting, to an authorized device, a request to grant access to the guest device to control at least one of the one or more devices connected to the monitoring system associated with the one or more properties;
receiving an approval to grant access to the guest device to control at least one of the one or more devices connected to the monitoring system associated with the one or more properties;
in response to receiving the approval, transmitting, to the guest device, (i) data that enables the guest device to access the web service that provides access to control at least one of the one or more devices connected to the monitoring system associated with the one or more properties, and (ii) a temporary authentication token that is used to authenticate the guest device to control at least one of the one or more devices connected to the monitoring system associated with the one or more properties;
detecting that the guest device is disconnected from the network within the one or more properties; and
in response to detecting that the guest device is disconnected from the network within the one or more properties, setting the temporary authentication token to have an expired status.