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Samsung patents easier setup for smart home devices using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

Samsung describes a method for new smart home appliances to guide a phone through their initial setup. The appliance sends a Bluetooth signal to help the phone find it, then connects to the home Wi-Fi network to register with a server.

Why it mattersThis aims to make the first-time connection process for new smart devices smoother by combining Bluetooth and Wi-Fi in a single chip.

In the filing’s own words

A method of controlling a home appliance, the method including, by a home appliance: outputting, via Bluetooth low energy (BLE) advertising, a BLE advertising packet including service set identifier (SSID)-related information related to an SSID of a software enabled access point (Soft AP) of the home appliance in a new product state in which the home appliance has not been registered in a server; outputting a Wi-Fi beacon of the Soft AP; in response to a connection request for the Soft AP received from a mobile device after outputting the Wi-Fi beacon, establishing a Wi-Fi communication connection between the mobile device and the Soft AP; receiving, from the mobile device via the Wi-Fi communication connection, a control signal related to an initial setting operation of registering the home appliance in the server; and performing the initial setting operation, based on the received control signal.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A home appliance comprising: a communication module including a BLE (Bluetooth low energy) communication module and a Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) communication module; at least one memory storing at least one instruction; and at least one processor configured to execute the at least one instruction to: output, via the BLE communication module, a BLE advertising packet including a device ID of the home appliance, receive, from a mobile device that has received the BLE advertising packet from the home appliance, a control signal for an initial setting operation, the control signal including an SSID (service set identifier) and a password of an AP (access point) device, establish a communication connection with the AP device via the Wi-Fi communication module based on the SSID and the password of the AP device, and perform the initial setting operation to register the home appliance in a user account stored on a server via the AP device based on the control signal, wherein the communication module is implemented as a single chipset.

Facts

Company
Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title
HOME APPLIANCE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING MOBILE DEVICE COMMUNICATING WITH HOME APPLIANCE
Publication number
US20260292468A1
Application number
19674898
Filed
May 12, 2026
Published
Sep 24, 2026
Inventors
5
Claims
18

Classified under

H04W 8/005 Electricity & electronicsH04L 12/2814 Electricity & electronicsH04W 4/80 Electricity & electronicsH04W 76/14 Electricity & electronics
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