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US 11,240,854 · App. 16/109,617 · Granted Feb 1, 2022

Methods and systems for pairing mobile robotic device docking stations with a wireless router and cloud service

Inventors: Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (San Jose, CA); Chin Pang Alfred Kwan (Toronto, CA); Andrew Francis Fitzgerald (Hamilton, CA)
Assignee: AI Incorporated
H04W76/11G06K19/06037H04L63/083H04W12/50H04W12/77H04W84/12
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Patent No.
US 11,240,854
App. No.
16/109,617
Granted
Feb 1, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for adding a robotic device to a first Wi-Fi network using a communication device, is disclosed, including generating an instruction to add the robotic device to the first Wi-Fi network using an application of the communication device connected to a first Wi-Fi network; extracting Wi-Fi access point's SSID and Wi-Fi password for the first Wi-Fi network by the application of the communication device; instructing the robotic device to enter into pairing mode; disconnecting the communication device from the first Wi-Fi network and connecting the communication device to a second Wi-Fi network of the robotic device using the application of the communication device; transferring the Wi-Fi access point's SSID and the Wi-Fi password for the first Wi-Fi network to the robotic device using the application of the communication device; and connecting the communication device to the first Wi-Fi network.

Claims (15)

1. A method for adding a robotic device to a first Wi-Fi network using a communication device, comprising:

generating an instruction to add the robotic device to the first Wi-Fi network using an application of the communication device connected to a first Wi-Fi network, the application comprising a graphical user interface;

extracting Wi-Fi access point's SSID and Wi-Fi password for the first Wi-Fi network by the application of the communication device;

instructing the robotic device to enter into pairing mode, wherein entering into pairing mode enables a Wi-Fi network card of the robotic device to establish a wireless connection with the communication device;

disconnecting the communication device from the first Wi-Fi network and connecting the communication device to a second Wi-Fi network of the robotic device using the application of the communication device;

transferring the Wi-Fi access point's SSID and the Wi-Fi password for the first Wi-Fi network to the robotic device using the application of the communication device, wherein the robotic device uses the Wi-Fi access point's SSID and Wi-Fi password to connect to the first Wi-Fi network; and

connecting the communication device to the first Wi-Fi network, wherein:

extracting the Wi-Fi access point's SSID and Wi-Fi password for the first Wi-Fi network comprises the application of the communication device receiving instructions from a QR barcode scanned using an imaging device of the robotic device and parsed by an image recognition software of the robotic device; and

the QR barcode further provides instructions to the application of the communication device to disconnect the communication device from the first Wi-Fi network and connect the communication device to a second Wi-Fi network of the robotic device, transfer the Wi-Fi access point's SSID and Wi-Fi password for the first Wi-Fi network to the robotic device, and connect the communication device back to the first Wi-Fi network after the transfer of information is complete.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the application of the communication device is connected to a cloud service.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the QR barcode further comprises login information for the cloud service corresponding to the robotic device; wherein the image recognition software is configured to further extrapolate the login information for the cloud service; and wherein the robotic device connects to the cloud service using the login information.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising transferring and receiving information between the robotic device and a docking station using radio frequency, wherein the information comprises at least one of Wi-Fi access point's SSID, Wi-Fi password, and cloud service login information.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising using the Wi-Fi access point's SSID and Wi-Fi password to connect the docking station to the Wi-Fi network and using the cloud service login information to connect the docking station to the cloud service.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising transferring and receiving information between at least one of the application of the communication device and the robotic device, the application of the communication device and a docking station, and the robotic device and the docking station, using a cloud service.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising transferring and receiving information between at least one of the application of the communication device and the robotic device, the application of the communication device and a docking station, and the robotic device and docking station, using a Wi-Fi router.

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