US 12,294,649 B2
Decentralized home sensor network
Colin Ulen, Cambridge, MA (US); Juan Abellanas Sanchez, Washington, DC (US); William Converse Blanchard, Arlington, VA (US); and Christopher Clarke Jewett, Arlington, VA (US)
Assigned to Alarm.com Incorporated, Tysons, VA (US)
Filed by Alarm.com Incorporated, Tysons, VA (US)
Filed on Aug. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/879,019.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/229,198, filed on Aug. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0044362 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/14 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 9/32 (2013.01) [H04L 9/0819 (2013.01); H04L 9/14 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, by a provisioning system and from a device that is accepted to connect with a first network using acceptance data that comprises a first key indicating the device is associated with the first network, a request a) to join a second network different from the first network b) that identifies the first key;
determining, by the provisioning system and using the identification of the first key in the request, whether the device that transmitted the request is associated with the first network; and
in response to determining that the device that transmitted the request is associated with the first network, transmitting, by the provisioning system and to a client device of a person associated with the first network, a notification indicating that the device has (i) disconnected from the first network and (ii) requested access to the second network different from the first network.