Samsung patents system to fix smart home Wi-Fi issues via user phone
Samsung describes a server method that detects when smart home devices lose internet connection. If multiple devices on the same Wi-Fi router go offline, the server asks a user's phone to check if the router's network settings are still valid. The phone then sends back updated network details to help restore the connection.
In the filing’s own words
A server device is provided. The server device includes memory and at least one processor. The instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the server device to identify a connection status with the server device of an Internet of Things (IoT) device, based on the connection status of the IoT device being an offline status, identify a connection status of one or more other IoT devices, registered with respect to an access point (AP) device to which the IoT device connects for connecting to the server device, based on the connection status of the one or more other IoT devices being the offline status, transmit, to an electronic device, a first message representing that a network connection problem occurred in association with the AP device, and receive a second message including second network information available for accessing the AP device or another AP device.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method performed by a server device, the method comprising: identifying a connection status with the server device of an internet of things (IoT) device; based on the connection status of the IoT device being an offline status, identifying a connection status of one or more other IoT devices, registered with respect to an access point (AP) device to which the IoT device connects for connecting to the server device; based on the connection status of the one or more other IoT devices being the offline status, transmitting, to an electronic device, a first message representing that a network connection problem occurred in association with the AP device, the first message including first network information used for accessing the AP device such that the electronic device determines whether the first network information is available for accessing the AP device; and receiving a second message including second network information available for accessing the AP device or another AP device, transmitted from the electronic device such that the first network information is updated to the second network information.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR TRANSMITTING WIRELESS NETWORK INFORMATION
- Publication number
- US20260291839A1
- Application number
- 19430952
- Filed
- Dec 23, 2025
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04L 43/0811 Electricity & electronicsH04W 76/18 Electricity & electronicsH04W 76/20 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Networks & wireless
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