Samsung patents phone feature that tracks smart home hubs while charging
This filing describes a method where a phone, while wirelessly charging on a smart home hub, receives a unique ID from that hub. The phone then sends this ID and its own location to a server to check if the hub is connected, displaying the hub's status and location changes on the screen.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes communication circuitry, memory storing instructions, wireless charging circuitry, and a processor, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to while the electronic device is being charged from the hub device through the wireless charging circuitry, receive a wireless signal including a device identifier (ID) from a hub device through the wireless charging circuitry, transmit the device ID and location information of the hub device to a server through the communication circuitry, wherein the location information of the hub device includes location information of the electronic device, receive information about a connection state between the hub device and the server from the server through the communication circuitry, and display, on the basis of the information about the connection state, information related to a location change of the hub device and information related to an online/offline status of at least one of the hub device or one or more Internet of things (IoT) devices operatively coupled to the hub device through a display.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising: communication circuitry; memory storing instructions; wireless charging circuitry; and at least one processor connected with the communication circuitry, the memory and the wireless charging circuitry, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: while the electronic device is being charged through the wireless charging circuitry from a hub device, receive, from the hub device through the wireless charging circuitry, a wireless signal including a device identifier (ID), transmit the device ID and location information of the hub device through the communication circuitry to a server, wherein the location information of the hub device comprises location information of the electronic device, receive, from the server through the communication circuitry, information on connection status between the hub device and the server, and based on the information on the connection status, display, through a display, information related to location change of the hub device and information related to an online/offline of at least one of the hub device or one or more Internet of things (IoT) devices operatively coupled with the hub device.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING INTERNET-OF-THINGS DEVICE
- Publication number
- US20260332680A1
- Application number
- 19702324
- Filed
- Jun 9, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04L 67/52 Electricity & electronicsG06F 21/44 Physics & computingG16Y 40/35 Physics & computingH04L 67/125 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Phones & computers
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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