Patent ID: 9418658
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: G06F,G10L,H04L,H04M

Claim Text:
1. A system comprising: a computing system remote from, and not in physical proximity to, a voice controlled assistant, the computing system configured to: determine that a period of time has lapsed since delivery of the voice controlled assistant; determine that the voice controlled assistant has yet to initiate configuration; generate a notice based at least on the voice controlled assistant yet to initiate the configuration; encode configuration settings as a sequence of sounds for emission within physical proximity of the voice controlled assistant; and transfer data representative of the sequence of sounds to a device to emit the sequence of sounds in physical proximity to the voice controlled assistant; and the voice controlled assistant having at least one microphone and at least one speaker to facilitate audio interactions with a user, the voice controlled assistant further having a wireless network interface to communicate with a wireless network after the voice controlled assistant is configured with the configuration settings to access the wireless network, the voice controlled assistant capturing the sequence of sounds through the microphone and having a decoder to decode the sequence of sounds to recover the configuration settings.