Samsung patents phone feature to auto-join new Wi-Fi networks
This filing describes a method where a phone automatically connects to a new Wi-Fi network after losing its current connection. It does this by sending a signal to a nearby router using a different communication protocol, which responds with the network name and password.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one communication circuit, memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions, and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the at least one communication circuit and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to establish a network connection via a first access point (AP) using a first communication protocol, in response to identifying that the network connection via the first AP is terminated, transmit a first packet using a second communication protocol, receive at least one second packet using the second communication protocol in connection with transmitting the first packet, and transmit a network connection request to a second AP using the first communication protocol, based on a network identifier and a network password that are identified based on the at least one second packet, wherein the first packet includes at least one of identification information of the electronic device or a network connection request indicator, and wherein the at least one second packet includes network connection information corresponding to the network identifier or a network password associated with the second AP, and is encrypted using an encryption key.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device, comprising: at least one communication circuit; memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the at least one communication circuit and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: establish a network connection via a first access point (AP) using a first communication protocol, in response to identifying that the network connection via the first AP is terminated, transmit a first packet using a second communication protocol, receive at least one second packet using the second communication protocol in connection with transmitting the first packet, and transmit a network connection request to a second AP using the first communication protocol, based on a network identifier and a network password that are identified based on the at least one second packet, wherein the first packet includes at least one of identification information of the electronic device or a network connection request indicator, and wherein the at least one second packet includes network connection information corresponding to the network identifier or the network password associated with the second AP, and is encrypted using an encryption key.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF
- Publication number
- US20260333496A1
- Application number
- 19702359
- Filed
- Jun 9, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04W 76/19 Electricity & electronicsH04B 17/318 Electricity & electronicsH04L 9/3226 Electricity & electronicsH04W 12/037 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Networks & wireless
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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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