Patent ID: 9549429
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of connecting a wireless speaker package and a wireless access point over a first wireless network using a mobile computing device, where the wireless speaker package and the mobile computing devices are both enabled to communicate over the first wireless network and are both enabled to communicate over a second, different wireless network, and where there are first wireless network connection credentials for the wireless access point, and wherein the communication over the first wireless network is via a first wireless communication protocol and the communication over the second wireless network is via a second wireless communication protocol, wherein the first and second wireless communication protocols are different, the method comprising: establishing a wireless connection between the wireless speaker package and the mobile computing device over the second wireless network; sending the first wireless network connection credentials for the wireless access point from the mobile computing device to the wireless speaker package over the second wireless network; establishing a connection between the wireless speaker package and the wireless access point on the first network using the first wireless network connection credentials for the wireless access point; using the second network to obtain a unique identifier of the wireless speaker package; and using the unique identifier of the wireless speaker package to establish communication between the wireless speaker package and the mobile computing device over the first network.