Patent ID: 8346946

Claim:
A method for performing manufacturer registration of consumer electronic devices comprising: receiving, by a server, purchaser-specific information from a user computer over a network, wherein the purchaser-specific information corresponds to a purchaser of a consumer electronic device to be registered; associating, by the server, a temporary short code with the purchaser-specific information; providing, by the server, the temporary short code to the user computer over the network based on the purchaser-specific information received by the server and following said associating of the temporary short code with the purchaser-specific information; receiving, by the server, the temporary short code and device-specific identification information from the consumer electronic device over the network; determining whether the temporary short code has expired; matching, by the server, the temporary short code received with the device-specific identification information from the consumer electronic device to the purchaser-specific information; and completing, by the server, manufacturer registration of the consumer electronic device using the purchaser-specific information and the device specific identification information; wherein the receiving the purchaser-specific information comprises receiving the purchaser-specific information from the user computer over a first network connection; and wherein the receiving the temporary short code and device-specific information comprises receiving the temporary short code and device-specific information from the consumer electronic device over a second network connection.